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Empire of the Dharma - Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 (Hardcover)
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Empire of the Dharma - Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912 (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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Empire of the Dharma explores the dynamic relationship between
Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to the
Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives cast this
relationship in politicized terms, with Korean Buddhists portrayed
as complicit in the "religious annexation" of the peninsula.
However, this view fails to account for the diverse visions,
interests, and strategies that drove both sides. Hwansoo Ilmee Kim
complicates this politicized account of religious interchange by
reexamining the "alliance" forged in 1910 between the Japanese Soto
sect and the Korean Wonjong order. The author argues that their
ties involved not so much political ideology as mutual benefit.
Both wished to strengthen Buddhism's precarious position within
Korean society and curb Christianity's growing influence. Korean
Buddhist monastics sought to leverage Japanese resources as a way
of advancing themselves and their temples, and missionaries of
Japanese Buddhist sects competed with one another to dominate
Buddhism on the peninsula. This strategic alliance pushed both
sides to confront new ideas about the place of religion in modern
society and framed the way that many Korean and Japanese Buddhists
came to think about the future of their shared religion.
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