Name: Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions
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Author: Jr. Robert E Buswell
ISBN: 9780824831790

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Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Hawaii Press

Author

Jr. Robert E Buswell

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

294

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.15

ISBN

0824831799

ISBN13

9780824831790

Synopsis "Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions "

Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch'uk (613-696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684-762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch'an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T'ient'ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.

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