Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun - Essays by Zen Master Kim Iryop

Informationen zum Autor Jin Y. Park is professor of Asian and comparative philosophy and religion and founding director of the Asian studies program at American University. Klappentext The author challenges her readers through her creative interpretations of Buddhist doctrines and Buddhist worldview, her reflections on the meaning of Buddhist practice, and her capacity to put together diverse aspects of human existence. In this process, the reader will also get a new insight on modern Korean literature which has been dominated by patriarchal reading and a new vision on the Korean New Women whose ideas and contributions to Korean society and intellectual world have long been in the shadow, silenced in the name of modernization and nation-building. Zusammenfassung The author challenges her readers through her creative interpretations of Buddhist doctrines and Buddhist worldview! her reflections on the meaning of Buddhist practice! and her capacity to put together diverse aspects of human existence. In this process! the reader will also get a new insight on modern Korean literature which has been dominated by patriarchal reading and a new vision on the Korean New Women whose ideas and contributions to Korean society and intellectual world have long been in the shadow! silenced in the name of modernization and nation-building.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kim Iry?p, Kim Iryop, Iry& Kim, Iry&p Kim, Iryop Kim, Ir-Yop Kim
• Mitarbeit: Robert E Buswell (Herausgeber), Robert E. Buswell (Herausgeber), Jin y Park (Übersetzung), Jin Y. Park (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: University of hawaii press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780824838782
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3878-2
• Seiten: 328
• Serien: Korean Classics Library: Philo; Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion; Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion; Korean Classics Library: Philo
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Weitere Weltreligionen