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

ISBN: 0824892488

ISBN13: 9780824892487

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

(Part of the Contemporary Buddhism Series)

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...

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