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42 produkter
Tracing Back the Radiance
Chinul's Korean Way of Zen
Häftad, 1991
219 kr
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Chinul (1158–1210) was the founder of the Korean tradition of Zen. He provides one of the most lucid and accessible accounts of Zen practice and meditation to be found anywhere in East Asian literature. Tracing Back the Radiance, an abridgment of Buswell’s Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected …
Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea
A Translation of the Samguk Yusa
Inbunden, 2025
932 kr
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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one of the most important premodern Korean historical texts. One of only two surviving works on the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668) and Greater Silla (668–936), the Samguk yusa is a rich …
Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun
Av Iryŏp Kim, Robert E. Buswell
Häftad, 2023
302 kr
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The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) bear witness to Korea’s encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp reflected on identity and existential loneliness in her poems, short stories, and autobiographical essays. As a pioneering feminist intellectual, she dedicated herself to gender …
Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea
Xu Jing’s Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Kory?
Av Sem Vermeersch, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
761 kr
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The king and ministers, superior and inferior, move with ritual and refinement. When the king goes on an inspection tour, everyone has the correct ceremonial attributes and the divine flag [troops] gallop in front while armored soldiers block the road. The soldiers of the Six Divisions all hold …
Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate
The Treatises of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt’ong (Kihwa)
Av A. Charles Muller, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
285 kr
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This volume makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea's greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On Mind, Material Force, and Principle and An Array of Critiques of Buddhism by Confucian statesman Chŏng Tojŏn (1342–1398) and Exposition of Orthodoxy …
Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral
Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong
Av Don Baker, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
781 kr
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Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762–1836) is one of the most creative thinkers Korea has ever produced, one of the country’s first Christians, and a leading scholar in Confucian philosophy. Born in a staunchly Neo-Confucian society, in his early twenties he encountered writings by Catholic missionaries in …
Handbook of Korean Zen Practice
A Mirror on the S?n School of Buddhism (S?n'ga Kwigam)
Av John Jorgensen, Robert E Buswell
Inbunden, 2015
570 kr
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S?n (Japanese Zen) has been the dominant form of Buddhism in Korea from medieval times to the present. A Handbook of Korean Zen Practice: A Mirror on the S?nSchool of Buddhism (S?n’ga kwigam) was the most popular guide for S?n practice and life ever published in Korea and helped restore Buddhism to …
Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought
The Chas?ngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (Yi T'oegye)
Häftad, 2015
570 kr
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Yi Hwang (1501–1570)—best known by his literary name, T'oegye—is one of the most eminent thinkers in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion. His Chas?ngnok (Record of self-reflection) is a superb Korean Neo-Confucian text: an eloquent collection of twenty-two scholarly letters and four …
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment
Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Av Jacqueline I. Stone, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
231 kr
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Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth …
Numinous Awareness Is Never Dark
The Korean Buddhist Master Chinul's Excerpts on Zen Practice
Inbunden, 2016
781 kr
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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 …
Korea's Premier Collection of Classical Literature
Selections from Sŏ Kŏjŏng's Tongmunsŏn
Av John B Duncan, Namhee Lee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
898 kr
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This is the first book in English to offer an extensive introduction to the Tongmunsŏn (Selections of Refined Literature of Korea)—the largest and most important Korean literary collection created prior to the twentieth century—as well as translations of essays from key chapters. The Tongmunsŏn was …
Place to Live
A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements
Inbunden, 2018
788 kr
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A Place to Live brings together in a single volume an introduction to Yi Chung-hwan's (1690-1756) T'aengniji (Treatise on Choosing Settlement)—one of the most widely read and influential of the Korean classics—and an annotated translation of the text, including the author's postscript.Yi composed …
Korean Scholar's Rude Awakening in Qing China
Pak Chega's Discourse on Northern Learning
Av Pak Chega, John B Duncan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
804 kr
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Two years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750–1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review: the former caused a stir across Europe, the latter …
Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk
Kŭmo Sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp
Av Dennis Wuerthner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
898 kr
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One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn …
Secrets of Buddhist Meditation
Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China
Av Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
823 kr
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In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist "meditation masters" (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which …
Poetry Demon
Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way
Av Jason Protass, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
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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 …
Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea
Tongguk Sesigi by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo
Av Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2021
898 kr
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Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea (Tongguk sesigi) is one of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sŏk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family. Toae, …
Memory, Music, Manuscripts
The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen
Av Michaela Mross, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
781 kr
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Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Av Paul Groner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
781 kr
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Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and …
Memory, Music, Manuscripts
The Ritual Dynamics of Kōshiki in Japanese Sōtō Zen
Av Michaela Mross, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
217 kr
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Kōshiki (Buddhist ceremonials) belong to a shared ritual repertoire of Japanese Buddhism that began with Tendai Pure Land belief in the late tenth century and spread to all Buddhist schools, including Sōtō Zen in the thirteenth century. In Memory, Music, Manuscripts, Michaela Mross elegantly …
Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Av Paul Groner, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
217 kr
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Modern Japanese Buddhist monks of all denominations differ from those in other Asian countries because they frequently marry, drink alcohol, and eat meat. This has caused Buddhist scholars and practitioners generally to assume that early Japanese monastics had little interest in precepts and …
Chan Before Chan
Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Av Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
217 kr
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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 …
Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness
P’ahan Chip by Yi Illo
Av Robert E. Buswell Jr., Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2024
979 kr
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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 …
Invention of a Language of Emptiness
The "Chojang Chungga-ŭi," the Earliest Korean Exposition of Buddhism
Inbunden, 2025
780 kr
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This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the "Chojang chungga-ŭi" (The Meaning of the "Middle and Provisional" in the "First Stanza"), a little-known text that yielded considerable influence on early East Asian Buddhism. It corresponds to the first chapter of the Taesŭng …
Korean Relations with Japan and Ryūkyū in the Early Chosŏn Period
A Translation of Sin Sukchu’s Haedong Chegukki
Av Sin Sukchu, Robert E. Buswell
Inbunden, 2026
888 kr
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Between 1392 and 1592—a period bounded by Japanese pirate raids along the Korean coast and Japan’s invasion of Chosŏn Korea—more than 4,600 Japanese trade missions were recorded by the Chosŏn government. In response to these missions, the famous official Sin Sukchu compiled regulations, detailed …
Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated
Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip
Inbunden, 2026
932 kr
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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 …
Talking About Buddhism
Two Lifetimes of Learning, Teaching, and (Some) Practice
Av Robert E. Buswell, Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Häftad, 2026
331 kr
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What do Buddhists mean by enlightenment? Does enlightenment unfold gradually or is it revealed in a sudden flash of insight? Does spiritual experience create belief or does belief create spiritual experience? Does the study of Buddhist philosophy hinder meditation or enhance it? What is the role of …
Paths to Liberation
The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought
Av Robert E. Buswell, Robert M. Gimello
Inbunden, 1992
781 kr
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Salvation Through Dissent
Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea, Eastern Scripture, and Other Tonghak Sources
Av George Kallander, Robert E. Buswell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
514 kr
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A popular teaching that combined elements of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folk beliefs, and Catholicism, Tonghak (Eastern Learning) is best known for its involvement in a rebellion that touched off the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and accelerated Japanese involvement in Korea. Through a careful …
