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Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate
This volume makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea's greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On Mind, Material Force, and …
Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk
One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kumo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully …
Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea
This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was …
Approaches to Chan, Son, and Zen Studies
This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its impacts on Korean Son and Japanese Zen. Zen enthralled the scholarly …
A Korean Scholar’s Rude Awakening in Qing China
Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750–1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both …
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; "remarks on …
The Poetry Demon
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry "the poetry demon." In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the …
Zen Evangelist
Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism and its radical doctrine of "sudden enlightenment." …
The Encyclopedia of Daily Life
This volume is a fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongso (The Encyclopedia of Daily Life). Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a …
A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral
Tasan Chong Yagyong (1762–1836) is one of the most creative thinkers Korea has ever produced, one of the country’s first Christians, and a leading scholar in Confucian philosophy. …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist …
Zen Monastic Experience
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 …