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Monastic Education In Korea Teaching Monks About Buddhism In The Modern Age Uri Kaplan Editor Mark Michael Rowe Editor

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Monastic Education In Korea Teaching Monks About Buddhism In The Modern Age Uri Kaplan Editor Mark Michael Rowe Editor
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 8.47 MB
Pages: 240
Author: Uri Kaplan (editor); Mark Michael Rowe (editor)
ISBN: 9780824883577, 0824883578
Language: English
Year: 2020

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Monastic Education In Korea Teaching Monks About Buddhism In The Modern Age Uri Kaplan Editor Mark Michael Rowe Editor by Uri Kaplan (editor); Mark Michael Rowe (editor) 9780824883577, 0824883578 instant download after payment.

What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical choices of monastics worthy of close study.
Monastic Education in Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program—only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic, Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to the religion.
The book further examines the proliferation of diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of the realities of operating large monastic organizations in contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating its core orthodoxies.

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