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What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their
enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to
focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do
they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism
includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other
historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more
recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The
sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical
choices of monastics worthy of close study.Monastic Education in
Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic
curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive
ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it
illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in
the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic
pedagogical program—only to be criticized and completely
restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these
modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers
today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the
textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of
Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform
the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of
Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic,
Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to
the religion. The book further examines the proliferation of
diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of
a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of
the realities of operating large monastic organizations in
contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community
that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating
its core orthodoxies.
What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their
enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to
focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do
they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism
includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other
historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more
recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The
sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical
choices of monastics worthy of close study. Monastic Education in
Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic
curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive
ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it
illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in
the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic
pedagogical program - only to be criticized and completely
restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these
modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers
today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the
textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of
Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform
the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of
Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic,
Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to
the religion. The book further examines the proliferation of
diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of
a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of
the realities of operating large monastic organizations in
contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community
that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating
its core orthodoxies.
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