From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea

by Mark A Nathan and Mark A. Nathan

At the start of the twentieth century, the Korean Buddhist tradition was arguably at the lowest point in its 1,500-year history in the peninsula. Discriminatory policies and punitive measures imposed on the monastic community during the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) had severely weakened Buddhist institutions. Prior to 1895, monastics were prohibited by law from freely entering major cities and remained isolated in the mountains where most of the surviving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824892488
• ISBN13: 9780824892487
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"