The Zen Monastic Experience : : Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea / / Robert E. Buswell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Buswell, Robert E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Rosaldo, Renato,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 16 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Plates --; Preface --; Conventions Used --; Introduction Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief --; CHAPTER ONE Buddhism in Contemporary Korea --; CHAPTER TWO Daily and Annual Schedules --; CHAPTER THREE Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan --; CHAPTER FOUR A Monk's Early Career --; CHAPTER FIVE The Support Division of the Monastery --; CHAPTER SIX Relations with the Laity --; CHAPTER SEVEN The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea --; CHAPTER EIGHT Training in the Meditation Hall --; CHAPTER NINE The Officers of the Meditation Compound --; CONCLUSION Toward a Reappraisal of Zen Religious Experience --; Epilogue Songgwang-sa after Kusan --; Appendix Principal Chants Used in Korean Monasteries --; Glossary of Sinitic Logographs --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691216102; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691216102?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert E. Buswell.

Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.