The Zen Monastic Experience

Brand: Princeton University Press

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UPC:
9780691034775
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1993-11-29
Release Date:
1993-12-19
Author:
Robert E. Buswell
Language:
english
Edition:
1St Edition
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Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.