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This book examines the Korean Buddhist reform movement and how the modern construct of Buddhism developed under colonial rule. Park argues that Korean Buddhists reconstructed Buddhism as socially a...
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This book examines the Korean Buddhist reform movement and how the modern construct of Buddhism developed under colonial rule. Park argues that Korean Buddhists reconstructed Buddhism as socially active and nationally viable by responding to, negotiating with, and resisting the influence of Western modernity and the Japanese colonial government. The need to survive led to an expansion of Korean Buddhism into social realms; simultaneously, the new enterprise created difficulty in maintaining monastic traditions. This situation provides a case study of Buddhist adaptation and struggle to develop forms of "modernity" in a colonial context.
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Pages: 168
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: Korea Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 November 2009
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290946
Format: Paperback
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Pori Park is associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. Her research examines the intersection between Buddhism, colonialism, modernity, nationalism, and globalization. She is the author of Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule (IEAS, 2009). Education: Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Acknowledgments – vii

Introduction – 1

  • 1. Rebound: From Oppression to Emulation of New Models – 14
  • 2. Caught In-Between: Korean Reactions to Japanese Buddhism and Colonial Policies on Buddhism – 34
  • 3. Modernizing Buddhism: Buddhist Reforms before the March First Movement – 48
  • 4. Confusion, Compromise, and Resistance: Buddhist Reforms after the March First Movement – 69
  • 5. A Vision for Social Salvation: Han Yongun's Integration of Sŏn and Kyo – 94

Epilogue – 118

Appendix 1: Major Events in Modern Korean Buddhism and Chronology of Han Yongun's Life – 126
Appendix 2: Table of Contents of the Treatise on the Reformation of Korean Buddhism (Chosŏn Pulgyo yusillon) – 130
Appendix 3A: Table of Contents of the Great Texts of Buddhism (Pulgyo taejŏn) – 131
Appendix 3B: Table of Contents of the Holy Texts of Buddhism (Bukkyŏ seiten) – 134
Bibliography – 136
Glossary-Index – 148