Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions.BQ658 2004-029693 0-8248-2762-7 Currents and countercurrents; Korean influences on the East Asian Buddhist traditions. Title main entry. Ed. by Robert E. Buswell. U. of Hawai'i Pr., [c]2005 294 p. $40.00 Seven papers from a September 1995 conference in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. explore how influences from Korea, as a peripheral culture in east Asia East Asia A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East. East Asian adj. & n. , reached and impacted Buddhist in China, the dominant center of the region, and other peripheral cultures. Western and Asian scholars of Asian history, culture, and religion, most working in the US, consider such topics as the evidence of Ch'an and Son literature for Korea as a source for the regeneration of Chinese Buddhism Chinese Buddhism refers collectively to the various schools of Buddhism that have flourished in China since ancient times. These schools integrated the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and other indigenous philosophical systems so that what was initially a foreign religion (the , and Uich'on's pilgrimage and the rising prominence of the Korean monastery monastery Local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks. Christian monasteries originally developed in Egypt, where the monks first lived as isolated hermits and then began to coalesce in communal groups. in Hang-chou during the Sung and Yuan periods. |
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