The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910-1945 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910-1945

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

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In the first part of the twentieth century, Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation--and even their own identities--to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focus...

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