Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks About Buddhism in the Modern Age - Contemporary Buddhism - Uri Kaplan - Books - University of Hawai'i Press - 9780824882389 - June 30, 2020
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Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks About Buddhism in the Modern Age - Contemporary Buddhism


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Offers a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, the book illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program.


240 pages, 8 black & white illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2020
ISBN13 9780824882389
Publishers University of Hawai'i Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 149 × 231 × 22 mm   ·   470 g
Series Editor Rowe, Mark Michael

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