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Buddhas & ancestors religion and wealth in fourteenth-century Korea /

Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Bud...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ahn, Juhn Young
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sowing the seeds of salvation with wealth
  • Dark and mysterious ways
  • This way of ours
  • All the king's men
  • Buddhas and ancestors
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Chinese characters
  • Bibliography
  • Index.