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Lecture Contents

Korean Buddhism from a Japanese Perspective(日本から見た韓国仏教)

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Course syllabus

This lecture will examine the overall trends in Korean Buddhism as understood by Japanese people from the perspectives of research history and intellectual history.
To this end, it provides an overview of the perspectives on Korean Buddhism through the research findings of leading modern Japanese scholars of Buddhism, as well as Buddhist exchanges between Korea and Japan from the introduction of Buddhism to Japan up to modern times.
It also explains how leading scholars of Yogacara and Hwaeom thought during the Three Kingdoms period, as well as Seon and Pure Land thought from the Goryeo period, have been studied in Japan, and the main research findings of Japanese scholars on Korean Buddhism during the Joseon and colonial periods.
Instructor

Sato Atsushi(佐藤厚)
Lecturer in Dept. of Literature at Toyo university, Japan

Lecture titles

Week	Lecture titles
1	Japanese Research on Korean Buddhism: History and Scholarship
2	History of Korean-Japanese Buddhist Relations
3	Japan's Study of Korean Yogacara and Hwaeom Buddhism
4	Japan's Study of Korean Seon and Pure Land Buddhism
5	Japanese study of Joseon and modern Buddhism
6	Roundtable discussion with Japanese Buddhist scholars: Kimura Kiyotaka and Ishii Kosei
7	Roundtable discussion with Japanese Buddhist scholars: Minowa Genryo and Shimoda Masahiro

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