Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions

Seven papers from a September 1995 conference in Los Angeles explore how influences from Korea, as a peripheral culture in east Asia, reached and impacted Buddhist in China, the dominant center of the region, and other peripheral cultures. Western and Asian scholars of Asian history, culture, and religion, most working in the US, consider such topics as the evidence of Ch'an and Son literature for Korea as a source for the regeneration of Chinese Buddhism, and Uich'on's pilgrimage and the rising prominence of the Korean monastery in Hang- chou during the Sung and YÜan periods. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)