Buddhas & ancestors : religion and wealth in fourteenth-century Korea /
Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Bud...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. |
| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1817092 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Sowing the seeds of salvation with wealth
- Dark and mysterious ways
- This way of ours
- All the king's men
- Buddhas and ancestors
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary of Chinese characters
- Bibliography
- Index.