Buddhism in the Early Choson
Subtitle: Suppression and Transformation (Studies in Korean Religions and Culture)
Contributors: Lewis R. Lancaster (Editor); Chai-Shin Yu (Editor)
Publisher: Asian Humanities Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780895818805
Subjects: Religion; History; Buddhism and politics; Religion - World Religions; Korea; Buddhism - General; Buddhism; Choson dynasty, 1392-1910; Chosæon dynasty, 1392-1910
First sentence: From an ideological point of view, the period of late Kory through the early Chosn was a time when Buddhism was being gradually suppressed.