The Zen Monastic Experience (eBook)

Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea

Robert E. Buswell (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691216102 (ISBN)

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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.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Āgama scriptures • Asceticism • Avalokitesvara • Bhikkhu • Bodhidharma • Bodhisattva • Bodhisattva Precepts • Buddhahood • Buddha's Birthday • Buddhism • Buddhist apocrypha • Buddhist art • Buddhist Meditation • Buddhist monasticism • Buddhist Studies • buddhist texts • Cambridge University Press • Career • celibacy • Censer • Ceremony • Chan Buddhism • Chinese Buddhism • Christian Mission • Christian monasticism • Clergy • Columbia University Press • communism • Confucian Academy • Confucianism • cremation • dharma family • Dharma talk • Dharma transmission • Doctrine • dormitory • D. T. Suzuki • East Asian Buddhism • East Asian Studies • Enlightenment • ethnography • filiality • Funeral procession • geomancy • Graduate school • Heart Sutra • Hiking • Hyesim (1178-1234) • Hyŏnho • Incense • Japanese Zen • Journal • Korean Buddhism • Korean Studies • Kusan (1908-1983) • Laity • layperson • Lecture • Mahayana • Mahayana Sutras • manual labor • martyr • meal • Meditation • Missionary • Monastery • Monasticism • Neo-Confucianism • Nyanaponika Thera • Ondol • Ordination • perfection of wisdom • Persecution • Pilgrimage • posal • Postulant • Precept • precepts • Primogeniture • Princeton University Press • Proselytism • Protestantism • recitation • Rector (ecclesiastical) • refectory • Religion • Religion in Korea • religious experience • religious text • residence • ritual observance • san francisco zen center • Sanskrit • Scholarship • Schools of Buddhism • seminary • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Seoul • Sermon • Shamanism • Snack • Songgwangsa • Son master (pangjang) • soybean • Stephen Batchelor (author) • Subitism • sudden-gradual ideologies • Sunim • Sutra • Thailand • The Buddhist (TV channel) • The Venerable • Three Monks • three states of mind • Tsung-mi (780-841) • University of Hawaii Press • Vegetable • verger • Vihara • Vinaya • Vocation • Wŏnhyo (617-686) • Writing • zen master
• ISBN-13: 9780691216102 / 9780691216102