The Korean Buddhist Empire(English, Hardcover, Kim Hwansoo Ilmee)

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The Korean Buddhist Empire(English, Hardcover, Kim Hwansoo Ilmee) is written by Kim Hwansoo Ilmee and published by Harvard University, Asia Center. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674987195 (ISBN 10) and 9780674987197 (ISBN 13).

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 focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism. Hwansoo Ilmee Kim examines how Korean, Japanese, and other Buddhists operating in colonial Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Manchuria, and beyond participated in and were significantly influenced by transnational forces, even as Buddhists of Korea and other parts of Asia were motivated by nationalist and sectarian interests. More broadly, the cases explored in the The Korean Buddhist Empire reveal that, while Japanese Buddhism exerted the most influence, Korean Buddhism was (as Japanese Buddhism was itself) deeply influenced by developments in China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Europe, and the United States, as well as by Christianity.