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Overview
After taking the tonsure, Iryŏp followed the advice of her teacher and stopped publishing for more than two decades. She returned to the world of letters in her sixties, using her strong, distinctive voice to address fundamental questions on the scope of identity, the meaning of being human, and the value of existence. In her writing, she frequently adopted an autobiographical style that combined her experiences with Buddhist teachings. Through a close analysis of Iryŏp’s story, Buddhist philosophy and practice in connection with East Asian new women’s movements, and continental philosophy, this volume offers a creative interpretation of Buddhism as both a philosophy and a religion actively engaged with lives as they are lived. It presents a fascinating narrative on how women connect with the world—whether through social issues such as gender inequality, a Buddhist worldview, or existential debates on human existence and provides readers with a new way of philosophizing that is transformative and deeply connected with everyday life.
Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp will be of primary interest to scholars and students of Buddhism, Buddhist and comparative philosophy, and gender and Korean studies.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780824858780 |
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Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press, The |
Publication date: | 02/28/2017 |
Series: | Studies of the International Center for Korean Studies, Korea University |
Pages: | 280 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1
Chapter 1 Between Light and Darkness (1896-1920) 19
Sister, Oh My Sister 19
One Petal, Higuchi Ichiyo of Korea 28
Chapter 2 To See and Be Seen (1918-1927) 34
The New Women: Their Lives and Their Deaths 34
Body That Matters: The Seito and the Gibson Girls 55
Chapter 3 Sense and Nonsense of Revolt (1924-1927) 66
Ethics of Marriage, Ethics of Freedom 66
Individualism: Old and New 72
Part 2
Chapter 4 I Who Have Lost Me (1927-1935) 83
Encountering Buddhism 83
Kim Iryop and Zen Buddhism in Korea 93
Chapter 5 Time for Reconciliation: Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun (1955-1960) 108
Kim Iryop's Buddhism 108
Beyond Good and Evil: Reflections on Christianity 128
Kim Iryop and the Philosophy of Religion 137
Chapter 6 At the End of the Journey: In Between Happiness and Misfortune (1960-1971) 147
The Critics: Between the Secular and the Sacred 147
Life, This Invincible Source of Existence 160
Chapter 7 A Life Lived: Women and Buddhist Philosophy 175
Writing, Buddhist Practice, and the Production of Meaning 175
Experience and Narrative Identity: The Logic of Exclusion 179
Women and Buddhist Philosophy 184
Abbreviations 189
Notes 191
Bibliography 219
Index 249
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This autobiographical and philosophical presentation of the life and thought of Kim Iryŏp offers rich overviews of women’s movements in twentieth-century Korea and Japan, a history of the development of Buddhism in Korea in the past several centuries, and a presentation of how Iryŏp’s thought enriches the conversations of experiential philosophy and philosophy of religion. It culminates with assessments of how Iryŏp’s early writing about women’s rights and status in Korean society connects with and is expanded through her later work on Buddhism as well as how her writings contribute to developing cross-cultural fields of philosophy and religion. The execution of the work, bringing together all of the themes noted above into a seamless whole, is extremely impressive.
Jin Park’s work is groundbreaking in many respects. Several books discuss the lives of individual nuns and their Buddhist practices, but none so masterfully presents a Buddhist nun whose life, writing, practice, and thought resonate and interlock so closely with contemporary issues such as (post)colonialism, nationalism, feminism, and modernity. In addition, her book not only brings overdue attention to the significance of nuns’ voices in Buddhism in general and Korean Buddhism in particular, but also attempts to make a connection between a nun’s literary work and philosophy and, more broadly, to link and compare her distinctive Buddhist philosophy with Western philosophy.