Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen Hidden Histories Enduring Vitality 1st Edition by Eun su Cho, Robert Buswell 1438435126 9781438435121

Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen Hidden Histories Enduring Vitality 1st Edition by Eun su Cho, Robert Buswell – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 1438435126, 9781438435121

Full download Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen Hidden Histories Enduring Vitality 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1438435126 

ISBN 13: 9781438435121

Author: Eun-su Cho; Robert E. Buswell

Explores the roles of Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the Koryo period to the present. Uncovering hidden histories, this book focuses on Korean Buddhist nuns and laywomen from the fourth century to the present. Today, South Korea’s Buddhist nuns have a thriving monastic community under their own control, and they are well known as meditation teachers and social service providers. However, little is known of the women who preceded them. Using primary sources to reveal that which has been lost, forgotten, or willfully ignored, this work reveals various figures, milieux, and activities of female adherents, clerical and lay. Contributors consider examples from the early days of Buddhism in Korea during the Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla periods (first millennium CE); the Koryŏ period (982–1392), when Buddhism flourished as the state religion; the Chosŏn period (1392–1910), when Buddhism was actively suppressed by the Neo-Confucian Court; and the contemporary resurgence of female monasticism that began in the latter part of the twentieth century.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Female Buddhist Practice in Korea—A Historical Account

3. Male Son Masters’ Views on Female Disciples in Later Koryo

4. Koryo Ladies and the Encouragement of Buddhismin Yuan China

5. Two Female Masters of Two Eras

6. Marginalized and Silenced

7. Buddhist Nuns and Alternative Space in Confucian Chosen Society

8. The Establishment of Buddhist Nunneries in Contemporary Korea

People also search:

korean buddhist nun

korean nuns

female buddhist nun

korean buddhist nun chef

chinese buddhist nuns

Tags: Eun su Cho, Robert Buswell, Korean, Buddhist, Laywomen