Description:
This book provides a comprehensive exploration on the history and practices of native Buddhist movements in contemporary Korea. It begins with a historical emergence of Korean Buddhism, followed by the colonial transmission of Japanese Buddhism in East Asia.
Review Quotes:
David W. Kim has provided us with a contextualised and comparative account of seven new religious movements that have developed their individual interpretations of East Asian Buddhism within the past century. It is an informative and fascinating read.
Eileen Barker OBE FBA, London School of Economics (LSE)
This volume is a well-researched and cogent response to the need for a scholarly inquiry into the diversity of contemporary Korean Buddhism. Kim convincingly shows how the principle of «universalist» and integrative Buddhism (Tongbulgyo) has not only been the historical orientation of Korean Buddhism but also how it provides a central hermeneutic key for understanding the multiple adaptive facets of contemporary Korean Buddhism, on the intellectual, cultural and societal levels.
Patrick Laude, Georgetown University