Monastic Education in Korea : : Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age /

Monastic Education in Korea : : Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age / / Uri Kaplan; ed. by Mark Michael Rowe.

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 tex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
VerfasserIn:
Kaplan, Uri,
HerausgeberIn:
Rowe, Mark Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Buddhism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 8 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: What Should Buddhist Monks Know about Buddhism?
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Traditional Curriculum
  • CHAPTER TWO. Monastic Education in Twentieth-Century Korea
  • CHAPTER THREE. Buddhism Simulating Buddhist Studies: Twenty-First-Century Reforms
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Toward Buddhist Pluralism: Monastic Graduate Schools and Internationalization
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Monastic Examinations and Bureaucratic Ranks
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix A: Chogye Order Official Curricula for Monastic Graduate Schools
  • Appendix B: Schedule of the 2014 Chogye Order Postulant Education Program
  • Appendix C: Glossary of Principal Curricular Titles and Terms
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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