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The Zen Monastic Experience : Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea / Robert E. Buswell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 16 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691216102
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3657095195 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Conventions Used -- Introduction Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief -- CHAPTER ONE Buddhism in Contemporary Korea -- CHAPTER TWO Daily and Annual Schedules -- CHAPTER THREE Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan -- CHAPTER FOUR A Monk's Early Career -- CHAPTER FIVE The Support Division of the Monastery -- CHAPTER SIX Relations with the Laity -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea -- CHAPTER EIGHT Training in the Meditation Hall -- CHAPTER NINE The Officers of the Meditation Compound -- CONCLUSION Toward a Reappraisal of Zen Religious Experience -- Epilogue Songgwang-sa after Kusan -- Appendix Principal Chants Used in Korean Monasteries -- Glossary of Sinitic Logographs -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Conventions Used -- Introduction Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief -- CHAPTER ONE Buddhism in Contemporary Korea -- CHAPTER TWO Daily and Annual Schedules -- CHAPTER THREE Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan -- CHAPTER FOUR A Monk's Early Career -- CHAPTER FIVE The Support Division of the Monastery -- CHAPTER SIX Relations with the Laity -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea -- CHAPTER EIGHT Training in the Meditation Hall -- CHAPTER NINE The Officers of the Meditation Compound -- CONCLUSION Toward a Reappraisal of Zen Religious Experience -- Epilogue Songgwang-sa after Kusan -- Appendix Principal Chants Used in Korean Monasteries -- Glossary of Sinitic Logographs -- Works Cited -- Index

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Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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