Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age - Contemporary Buddhism - Uri Kaplan - Books - University of Hawai'i Press - 9780824889838 - March 31, 2021
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Monastic Education in Korea: Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age - Contemporary Buddhism


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Provides what is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. The book 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.


240 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 31, 2021
ISBN13 9780824889838
Publishers University of Hawai'i Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 228 × 153 × 22 mm   ·   340 g
Series Editor Rowe, Mark Michael

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