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      Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness

      Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      Presents is the first complete translation in any Western language of P'ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; ""remarks on poetry"") and one of the oldest extant…

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      Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Kumgang Sammaegyong Non)

      Wonhyo (617-686) is the dominant figure in the history of Korean Buddhism and one of the most influential thinkers in the Korean philosophical tradition. This is Robert E. Buswell Jr’s…

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      A Korean Confucian’s Advice on How to Be Moral: Tasan Chong Yagyong’s Reading of the Zhongyong

      Don Baker,Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      Written as a dialogue with King Chongjo, (r. 1776-1800) these texts reveal how Tasan interpreted his Confucian tradition, particularly its understanding of how human beings could cultivate morality, while the…

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      The Master from Mountains and Fields: Prose Writings of Hwadam, So Kyongdok

      Isabelle Sancho,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      A fully annotated translation of the prose texts from the ‘collected works’ of So Kyongdok (1489-1546), an influential Confucian scholar from the early Choson period (1392-1910). So embodied an archetype…

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      Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk: Kumo sinhwa by Kim Sisup

      Dennis Wuerthner

      One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange…

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      The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way

      Jason Protass

      Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960-1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry the poetry demon. In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of…

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      The Poetry Demon: Song-Dynasty Monks on Verse and the Way

      Jason Protass,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960-1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry ‘the poetry demon’. In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of…

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      Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea: Tongguk sesigi by Toae Hong Sok-mo

      Werner Sasse,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      One of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sk-mo, a wealthy poet…

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      Memory, Music, Manuscripts: The Ritual Dynamics of Koshiki in Japanese Soto Zen

      Michaela Mross,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      Combines the study of premodern manuscripts and woodblock prints with ethnographic fieldwork to illuminate the historical development of the highly musical koshiki rituals performed by Soto Zen clerics.

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      Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai

      Paul Groner,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      A landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, that examines the medieval Tendai School to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting…

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      Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatises of Chong Tojon (Sambong) and Hamho Tukt'ong (Kihwa)

      A. Charles Muller,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      Makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea’s greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. ‘On Mind, Material Force, and Principle’, ‘An Array of Critiques of Buddhism’…

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      Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai

      Paul Groner,Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      A landmark collection of essays by Paul Groner, one of the leading authorities on Tendai Buddhism, that examines the medieval Tendai School to uncover the differences in understanding and interpreting…

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      Memory, Music, Manuscripts

      Michaela Mross, Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      Elegantly combines the study of premodern manuscripts and woodblock prints with ethnographic fieldwork to illuminate the historical development of the highly musical koshiki rituals performed by Soto Zen clerics.

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      Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan

      Bryan D. Lowe,Robert E. Buswell Jr

      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…

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      Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

      Eric M. Greene,Robert E. Buswell Jr

      Offers a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. Eric Greene focuses on how medieval…

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      The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China

      Eric M. Greene,Robert E. Buswell Jr

      Presents a study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed…

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      The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China

      Eric M. Greene,Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

      Presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of the ‘Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan’ (‘Chan Essentials’) and the…

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      Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

      Eric M. Greene,Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on - and what should be going on - behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in…

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      The Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Woman’s Guide to Living in Late-Choson Korea

      Kil Cha,Michael J. Pettid

      A fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongs. Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work is…

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      A Korean Scholar’s Rude Awakening in Qing China: Pak Chega’s Discourse on Northern Learning

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      Two years after Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega’s (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. In a series…

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      Zen Evangelist

      John R. McRae, Robert E. Buswell Jr.

      Brings together John McRae's lifetime of work on the Shenhui corpus, including extensively annotated translations of all five of Shenhui's texts discovered at Dunhuang as well as McRae's seminal studies…

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      The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism

      Robert E. Buswell,Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

      With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this dictionary of Buddhism in English covers terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan…

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