Robert E Buswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 339544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Buswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Buswell |
| SIGNATURE | BUSWELL R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong
Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread throughout East Asia
Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
The Origins of Good and Evil and the Challenge of Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition
The origins of good and evil and the problem of theodicy present a special set of challenges in Buddhism, which is relatively less concerned with consideration of first causes than are monotheistic religions. Buddhism focuses less on the issue of why evil and its incumbent suffering are present in the world and more on the question of how to respond to that evil. This emphasis on soteriology over metaphysics is seen in the characteristic invocati…
Religions of Korea in Practice
The ‘Sensation of Doubt’ in East Asian Zen Buddhism and Some Parallels with Pāli Accounts of Meditation Practice
The technique of ‘examining meditative topics’ (Chinese kanhua Chan) is one of the emblematic practices of the ‘Zen’ traditions of East Asia. (We in the West know this technique better as kōan practice, after its later Japanese analogues.) An emblematic feature of this technique is the generation of a sense of inquiry, or more literally a ‘feeling’ or ‘sensation of doubt’. This inquiry creates an intense introspective focus that, in some strands …
Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn
Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the Hwaŏm (Huayan) school to found a new Ch’ŏnt’ae (Tianta…
The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra, a Buddhist Apocryphon
This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was traditionally assumed to have been translated from Sanskrit, but some modern scholars, principally in Japan, have proposed that it is instead an indigenous Chinese composition. In contrast to both of these views, Robert Buswell maintains it was written in Korea around A.…
Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan
Ritualized Writing takes readers into the fascinating world of Japanese Buddhist manuscript cultures. Using archival sources that have received scant attention in English, primarily documents from an eighth-century Japanese scriptorium and colophons from sutra manuscripts, Bryan D. Lowe uncovers the ways in which the transcription of Buddhist scripture was a highly ritualized endeavor. He takes a ground-level approach by emphasizing the activitie…
A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T’oegye)
Yi Hwang (1501-1570)-best known by his literary name, T'oegye-is one of the most eminent thinkers in the history of East Asian philosophy and religion. His Chasŏngnok (Record of self-reflection) is a superb Korean Neo-Confucian text: an eloquent collection of twenty-two scholarly letters and four essays written to his close disciples and junior colleagues. These were carefully selected by T'oegye himself after self-reflecting (chasŏng) on his pra…
Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions
Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East As…
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through early fourteenth centuries. By concentrating one's thoughts on the Buddha in one's last moments, it was said even an ignorant and sinful person coul…
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Unlike reference works that focus on a single Budd…
Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea
Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea
Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality
Thinking about “Korean Buddhism”: A Continental Perspective
This article explores the organic relationship that existed between Korean Buddhism and the broader East Asian tradition throughout much of the premodern period. Even while retaining some sense of their ethnic and cultural distinctiveness, Korean Buddhists were able to exert wide-ranging influence both geographically and temporally across the East Asian region. This influence was made possible because Buddhist monks saw themselves not so much as …
Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly
This Presidential Address explores Korean Buddhist travel undertaken for religious training, missionary propagation, and devotional pilgrimage. By traveling to India and throughout East Asia, as well as to the mythic undersea bastion of the faith, Koreans demonstrated their associations with the wider world of Buddhist culture, whether it be terrestrial or cosmological. Simultaneous with continued travel overseas to the Chinese mainland and the B…
Christianity in Korea
Buddhism Under Confucian Domination: The Synthetic Vision of Sŏsan Hyujŏng
Preliminary Notes on the Proliferation of Cittaviprayuktasamskāra-S in the Vaibhāsika School
The "aids to Penetration" (Nirvedhabhāgīya) According to the Vaibhāsika School
Buddhadeva: Materials Toward an Assessment of His Philosophy
The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea
List of PlatesPrefaceConventions UsedIntroduction: Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief3Ch. 1Buddhism in Contemporary Korea21Ch. 2Daily and Annual Schedules37Ch. 3Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan49Ch. 4A Monk's Early Career69Ch. 5The Support Division of the Monastery107Ch. 6Relations with the Laity135Chronology of the Puril Hoe147Ch. 7The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea149Ch. 8Training in the Meditation Hall161Ch. 9The Officers of the Medit…
Paths to Liberation: The Marga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought
The "aids to Penetration" (Nirvedhabhāgīya) According to the Vaibhāsika School
Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly
This Presidential Address explores Korean Buddhist travel undertaken for religious training, missionary propagation, and devotional pilgrimage. By traveling to India and throughout East Asia, as well as to the mythic undersea bastion of the faith, Koreans demonstrated their associations with the wider world of Buddhist culture, whether it be terrestrial or cosmological. Simultaneous with continued travel overseas to the Chinese mainland and the B…
Preliminary Notes on the Proliferation of Cittaviprayuktasamskāra-S in the Vaibhāsika School
The Zen Monastic Experience
Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism
The "Short-cut" Approach of K'an-hua Meditation: The Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism
Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha
The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea
Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought
The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The "Vajrasamadhi-Sutra", a Buddhist Apocryphon
This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was traditionally assumed to have been translated from Sanskrit, but some modern scholars, principally in Japan, have proposed that it is instead an indigenous Chinese composition. In contrast to both of these views, Robert Buswell maintains it was written in Korea around A.…
The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra. A Buddhist Apocryphon
Zen (Sŏn) Buddhism and the Context of Belief
The Zen Monastic Experience
Paths to Liberation: The Marga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought
The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea
List of PlatesPrefaceConventions UsedIntroduction: Zen Monasticism and the Context of Belief3Ch. 1Buddhism in Contemporary Korea21Ch. 2Daily and Annual Schedules37Ch. 3Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan49Ch. 4A Monk's Early Career69Ch. 5The Support Division of the Monastery107Ch. 6Relations with the Laity135Chronology of the Puril Hoe147Ch. 7The Practice of Zen Meditation in Korea149Ch. 8Training in the Meditation Hall161Ch. 9The Officers of the Medit…
Preliminary Notes on the Proliferation of Cittaviprayuktasamskāra-S in the Vaibhāsika School
The "aids to Penetration" (Nirvedhabhāgīya) According to the Vaibhāsika School
Buddhadeva: Materials Toward an Assessment of His Philosophy
Buddhism Under Confucian Domination: The Synthetic Vision of Sŏsan Hyujŏng
Christianity in Korea
Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly
This Presidential Address explores Korean Buddhist travel undertaken for religious training, missionary propagation, and devotional pilgrimage. By traveling to India and throughout East Asia, as well as to the mythic undersea bastion of the faith, Koreans demonstrated their associations with the wider world of Buddhist culture, whether it be terrestrial or cosmological. Simultaneous with continued travel overseas to the Chinese mainland and the B…
Thinking about “Korean Buddhism”: A Continental Perspective
This article explores the organic relationship that existed between Korean Buddhism and the broader East Asian tradition throughout much of the premodern period. Even while retaining some sense of their ethnic and cultural distinctiveness, Korean Buddhists were able to exert wide-ranging influence both geographically and temporally across the East Asian region. This influence was made possible because Buddhist monks saw themselves not so much as …
Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality
Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea
Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Unlike reference works that focus on a single Budd…
Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through early fourteenth centuries. By concentrating one's thoughts on the Buddha in one's last moments, it was said even an ignorant and sinful person coul…
Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn
Ŭich’ŏn (1055-1101) is recognized as a Buddhist master of great stature in the East Asian tradition. Born a prince in the medieval Korean state of Koryŏ (960-1279), he traveled to Song China (960-1279) to study Buddhism and later compiled and published the first collection of East Asian exegetical texts. According to the received scholarly tradition, after returning to Korea, Ŭich’ŏn left the Hwaŏm (Huayan) school to found a new Ch’ŏnt’ae (Tianta…
The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra, a Buddhist Apocryphon
This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was traditionally assumed to have been translated from Sanskrit, but some modern scholars, principally in Japan, have proposed that it is instead an indigenous Chinese composition. In contrast to both of these views, Robert Buswell maintains it was written in Korea around A.…
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