The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction

224 CHAPTER NINE of clothing. Temples were built specifically to house these relics, as well as to channel their powers to indiv ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 225 9.3.2 Son (Ch'an) Pomnang (fl. 632-46), a Korean disciple of Fourth Ch'an Patriarch Tao-hsin ( ...

226 CHAPTER NINE Benefiting from strong political patronage from the Koryos, monasteries grew in size, wealth, and influence. Ma ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 227 9.4.2 Chinul Chinul (1158-1210; posthumously named Pojo) was largely responsible for molding S ...

228 CHAPTER NINE and words (see also the discussions of language and perception in Sections 1.4.3 and 2.3.1). As a result, Chinu ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 229 then taking the abbot's high seat to proclaim that all the scriptures and the Three Vehicles a ...

230 CHAPTER NINE In the nineteenth century, growing Christian influence in the country sparked a small Buddhist backlash. Ch'oe ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 231 dream of a united Korean Sangha. The union, however, was short-lived. Mter independence, the o ...

232 CHAPTER NINE offering healing through meditation, and providing instruction in such arts as painting, flower arranging, and ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 233 lished during the Yi dynasty, whereas others place more emphasis on medita- tion. All preserve ...

234 CHAPTER NINE Novitiate ordination carries a tacit agreement to contribute another three years of service to the monastery, u ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 235 day of the twelfth lunar month, which usually falls in January). The entire pe- riod is one ex ...

236 CHAPTER NINE As with all traditional institutions, the great Korean monasteries have found their very existence challenged b ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 237 Buddhism, which-aside from a few Theravadin enclaves along the Cambo- dian border-came almost ...

238 CHAPTER NINE beautiful and talented heroine, Kie'u, who is forced to part with her true love, young scholar Kim. To save her ...

BUDDHISM IN KOREA AND VIETNAM 239 monastics provoked the United Nations into investigating the Vietnamese government's history o ...

240 CHAPTER NINE of Theravada and Mahayana groups. Officially banned in 1981, the UBCV has nonetheless marshaled the support ofV ...

10 BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 10.1 The Cult of Charisma P rior to the importation of Buddhism from Korea and China, Japan had no speculat ...

242 CHAPTER TEN Thus ritual and political administration were viewed as two facets of a single process. Because the kami were nu ...

BUDDHISM IN JAPAN 243 to the beauties of nature were two sides of a single faculty. Because the leader of an uji was expected to ...