Lives of Eminent Korean Monks PDF Download

Author: Peter H. Lee
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674181472
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Category : History
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Author: KAKHUN
Publisher: Literature Translation Institute of Korea
ISBN: 8993360995
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Languages : en
Pages : 183

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The Digital Library of Korean Classics is a project undertaken by Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) to digitalize selected translated titles of Korean classics published in the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. LTI Korea is an affiliate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of the Republic of Korea that seeks to promote Korean literature and culture around the world. This e-book was made by scanning and converting the original book using OCR software. We have made every effort to ensure the book is free of any errors or omissions, but if you discover any, please email us so that we can improve the quality of the book.

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Author: Kakhun, S̆ok, 13th cent.
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Category : Buddhism Korea Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Gakhun, Beomhae Gagan, Geummyeong Bojeong
Publisher: Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
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Category : Religion
Languages : ko
Pages : 376

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It introduces the biographies of some eminent monks who shone the history of Korean Buddhism with their life and thought. It selects 106 monks’ biographies from: (1) Haedong goseung jeon 海東高僧傳 (Biographies of Eminent Monks of Haedong) in 1215 during late Goryeo by Gakhun 覺訓, (2) Dongsa yeoljeon 東師列傳 (Biographies of Eastern Masters) in 1894 by Beomhae Gagan 梵海覺岸 (1820–1896), which collects the biographies of monks from early history of Korea to the nineteenth century, (3) Jogye goseung jeon 曹溪高僧傳 (Biographies of Eminent Monks of Jogye) by Geummyeong Bojeong 錦溟寶鼎 (1861–1930) in 1930. This book helps people read the life and thought of these monks who created the tradition of 1,700 years of history of Korean Buddhism, as well as the historical situation and spirit of their time. (1) Haedong goseung jeon is the biographies of eminent monks from the time of Buddhism’s introduction to the thirteenth century that the Hwaeom monk Gakhun recorded. Only two volumes of the text that correspond to the period of the Three Kingdoms survive now. This book selects the biographies of twenty-eight monks, including those who traveled to China and India to seek Buddhist scriptures. (2) Dongsa yeoljeon is the collection of the biographies of 198 eminent monks from the period of the Three Kingdoms to late Joseon that Beomhae Gagan of Daeheungsa Monastery, Haenam, Jeollanam-do, compiled. This book selects forty-eight of them, focusing on the successors of the Taego 太古 dharma lineage and the Pyeonyang branch of late Joseon. (3) Jogye goseung jeon records the biographies of ninety-seven monks after Bojo Jinul, thirty among of whom this book selects, focusing on the Buhyu lineage monks with Songgwangsa as their head monastery in late Joseon.

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Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004037335
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Author: Stephen O. Murray
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595227856
Category : Gay people
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Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824867424
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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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, and the Korean Zen master Chinul’s (1158–1210) magnum opus, Excerpts, offers one of the most thorough treatments of it in all of premodern Buddhist literature. According to Chinul’s analysis, enlightenment is both sudden and gradual. Zen practice must begin with a sudden awakening to the “numinous awareness”—the “sentience,” or buddha-nature—that is inherent in all “sentient” beings. Such an awareness does not need to be developed but must simply be recognized (or better “re-cognized”), through the unmediated experience of insight. Even after this initial awakening, however, deeply engrained proclivities of thought and conduct may continue to disturb the practitioner; these can only be removed gradually as his or her practice matures. Chinul’s “sudden awakening/gradual cultivation” soteriology became emblematic of the Buddhist tradition in Korea. Excerpts, translated here in its entirety by the preeminent Western specialist in the Korean Buddhist tradition, goes on to examine Chinul’s treatments of many of the quintessential practices of Zen Buddhism, including nonconceptualization, or no-thought, and the concurrent development of meditation and wisdom, as well as, for the first time in Korean Zen, “examining meditative topics” (kanhwa Sŏn)—what we in the West know better as kōans, after its later Japanese analogues. Fitting this new technique into his preferred soteriological schema of sudden awakening/gradual cultivation was no simple task for Chinul. Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark offers an extensive study of the contours of the sudden/gradual debate in Buddhist thought and practice and traces the influence of Chinul’s analysis of this issue throughout the history of the Korean tradition. Copiously annotated, the work contains extensive selections from the two traditional Korean commentaries to the text. In Buswell’s treatment, Chinul’s Excerpts emerges as the single most influential work written by a Korean Buddhist author.