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Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark

The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul’s Excerpts on Zen Practice

Translated by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This “sudden/gradual issue” was one of the crucial debates that helped forge the Zen school in East Asia, ... Read more

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Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark examines the issue of whether enlightenment in Zen Buddhism is sudden or gradual—that is, something intrinsic to the mind that is achieved in a sudden flash of insight or something extrinsic to it that must be developed through a sequential series of practices. This “sudden/gradual issue” was one of the crucial debates that helped forge the Zen school in East Asia,
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Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism

The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn

Translated by Richard D. McBride, II ...

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the ... Read more

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Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the
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Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated

Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip

Translated by Remco E. Breuker ...

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series Book 15 - Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials
Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection containing more than two thousand texts and considered the earliest substantial oeuvre of a Koryŏ writer to date. The present work comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral ... Read more

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Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as Anticipated is a miscellany of work from his Tongguk Yi Sangguk chip, a collection containing more than two thousand texts and considered the earliest substantial oeuvre of a Koryŏ writer to date. The present work comprises translations of poems, tales, letters, epitaphs, and funeral
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The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

by Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr. ...

The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in EnglishWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. ... Read more

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The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in EnglishWith more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
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The Zen Monastic Experience

Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea

by Robert E. Buswell Jr. ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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The Master from Mountains and Fields

Prose Writings of Hwadam, Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk

Translated by Dr. Isabelle Sancho ...

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
The Master from Mountains and Fields is a fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the “collected works” of Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk (1489–1546), an influential Confucian scholar from the early Chosŏn period (1392-1910). A native of Songdo (also known as Kaesŏng) in present-day North Korea, Sŏ has loomed large in the Korean cultural imagination and appeared as an exceptional sage and popular hero in ... Read more

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The Master from Mountains and Fields is a fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the “collected works” of Sŏ Kyŏngdŏk (1489–1546), an influential Confucian scholar from the early Chosŏn period (1392-1910). A native of Songdo (also known as Kaesŏng) in present-day North Korea, Sŏ has loomed large in the Korean cultural imagination and appeared as an exceptional sage and popular hero in
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Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

P’ahan chip by Yi Illo

Translated by Dennis Wuerthner ...

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series Book 13 - Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; “remarks on poetry”) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (1152–1220) during the mid-Koryǒ dynasty (918–1392). *P’*ahan chip features poetry composed in Literary Chinese (the ... Read more

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Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness is the first complete translation in any Western language of P’ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; “remarks on poetry”) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (1152–1220) during the mid-Koryǒ dynasty (918–1392). *P’*ahan chip features poetry composed in Literary Chinese (the
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Zen Evangelist

Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism

by John R. McRae, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series Book 12 - Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism and its radical doctrine of “sudden enlightenment.” However, manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal that the real architect of the Southern school was Huineng’s student Shenhui (684–758). An ardent evangelist for his master’s ... Read more

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Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism and its radical doctrine of “sudden enlightenment.” However, manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal that the real architect of the Southern school was Huineng’s student Shenhui (684–758). An ardent evangelist for his master’s
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The Foresight of Dark Knowing

Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea

by John Jorgensen, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series series Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese ... Read more

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Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese
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Chan Before Chan

Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

by Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series Book 39 - Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of ... Read more

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What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of
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The Poetry Demon

Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way

by Jason Protass, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...

Series Book 41 - Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about ... Read more

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Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about
... Read more
Korean Buddhism

Selected Readings from Primary Texts

by Jin Y. Park, Sumi Lee, Juhn Ahn, Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Dr. Gregory N. Evon, Eunsu Cho, Dr. Go Chong, Dr. Lucy Huekyung Jee, John Jorgensen0, Dr. Halla Kim1, Hwansoo Ilmee Kim2, Dr. Jongwook Kim3, Dr. Seong Uk Kim4, Sujung Kim5, Dr. Sung-Eun Thomas Kim6, Dr. Seunghak Koh7, Richard D. McBride, II8, A. Charles Muller9, Dr. Jeongeun Park0, Dr. Pori Park1, Dr. Henrik H. Sørensen2, Sem Vermeersch3, Matty Wegehaupt4 ...

This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts spanning the seventh to twenty-first centuries. All have been expertly translated by leading scholars in the field.The volume introduction provides an overview of major themes that illuminates the diverse sources that follow. The texts, each prefaced by a brief introduction and list of ... Read more

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This book presents the first comprehensive introduction to Korean Buddhism through twenty-five key primary texts spanning the seventh to twenty-first centuries. All have been expertly translated by leading scholars in the field.The volume introduction provides an overview of major themes that illuminates the diverse sources that follow. The texts, each prefaced by a brief introduction and list of
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