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6Gender and Dharma LineageIn Robert E. Buswell (ed.), Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread throughout East Asia, Suny Press. pp. 239-262. 2022.
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Gender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean Sŏn BuddhismIn Heine Welter (ed.), Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread throughout East Asia, State University of New York Press. 2022.
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Burdens of modernity: Baek Seonguk and the formation of modern Korean Buddhist philosophyIn Youngsun Back & Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Traditional Korean Philosophy: Problems and Debates, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.
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6Temporality and Non-temporality in Li Tongxuan’s Huayan BuddhismIn Youru Wang & Sandra A. Wawrytko (eds.), Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 325-347. 2017.This chapter discusses the Huayan Buddhism of Li Tongxuan. At the core of his Buddhism is the claim that sentient beings are equipped with exactly the same qualities as the Buddha. In his analysis of the 80-fascicle version of the Huayan Jing, Li claims that Huayan teaching is a subitist teaching that proposes the awakening in this lifetime. In this context, unlike “orthodox” Huayan thinkers, Li claims that the chapter “Entering the Realm of Reality” is the core of the Huayan Jing and that Sudha…Read more
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46Philosophizing and Power: East–West Encounter in the Formation of Modern East Asian Buddhist PhilosophyPhilosophy East and West 67 (3): 801-824. 2017.Philosophy claims that its goal is to search for truth. The history of philosophy, however, demonstrates that this search for truth has not been free from the power dynamics of respective eras. In this article, I claim that the formation of modern East Asian philosophy is one occasion in which the power structure of the time was visibly reflected. The East–West power imbalance at the beginning of the modern period was both implicitly and explicitly imbedded in the formation of modern Buddhist ph…Read more
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138An Examined Life: Women, Buddhism, and Philosophy in KIm IryopJournal of World Philosophies 5. 2020.
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Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun: Essays by Zen Master Kim IryopUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2004.The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) bear witness to Korea’s encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp reflected on identity and existential loneliness in her poems, short stories, and autobiographical essays. As a pioneering feminist intellectual, she dedicated herself to gender issues and understanding the changing role of women in Korean society. As an influential Buddhist nun, she examined religious teachings and strove to interpret modern human existence through a religious w…Read more
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9Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim IryŏpUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2017.Why and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? The present volume aims to answer these questions by examining the life and philosophy of a Korean Zen Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971). The daughter of a pastor, Iryŏp began questioning Christian doctrine as a teenager. In a few years, she became increasingly involved in women’s movements in Korea, speaking against society’s control of female sexuality and demanding sexual freedom and free divorce for women. While in her late twenties…Read more
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2The Visible and the Invisible: Rethinking Values and Justice from a Buddhist- Postmodern PerspectiveIn Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 109-124. 2015.
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39Law of Genre and Intercultural Philosophy: A Reading of Kwok-ying L au ’s Phenomenology and Intercultural UnderstandingDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (1): 119-126. 2019.
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65Living the inconceivable: Hua-Yen buddhism and postmodern différendAsian Philosophy 13 (2 & 3). 2003.This essay attempts a paradigmatic comparison between the fourfold worldview of Hua-yen Buddhism and the postmodern philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard. Employing a tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces as a structural underpinning of these two philosophies, the essay illuminates the liberating nature of Hua-yen Buddhism and postmodern thought together with the shadow of skepticism involved in endorsing a vision for a poly-lingual existence. Despite human beings' desire for a totali…Read more
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32Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern EthicsLexington Books. 2008.Through a close analysis of Zen encounter dialogues and Huayan Buddhist philosophy, Buddhism and Postmodernity offers a new ethical paradigm for Buddhist-postmodern philosophy.
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Understanding Philosophical Thinking: Buddhism and Postmodern ThoughtIn Keli Fang (ed.), Chinese Philosophy and the Trends of the 21st Century Civilization, Commercial Press. pp. 4--418. 2003.
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29A TrajectoryIn an essay that is now a classic piece in understanding post-modern culture, Jean-François Lyotard wrote, “[e]clecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald’s food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and ‘retro’ clothes in Hong Kong” (Lyotard 1989: 76). The boundaries have become blurred in both positive and negative senses. Geographical borders have loosened through ever-increas…Read more
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99Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world.
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3Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy explores new forms of philosophizing in the age of globalization by challenging the conventional border between the East and the West, as well as the traditional boundaries among different academic disciplines. This rich investigation demonstrates the importance of cross-cultural thinking in our reading of philosophical texts and explores how cross-cultural thinking transforms our understanding of the traditional philosophical paradigm.
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28Zen language in our time: The case of pojo Chinul'sPhilosophy East and West 55 (1): 80-98. 2005.: Zen philosophy of language is discussed by exploring the concepts of live anddeadwords,involvement with meaningand involvement with words, and the three mysterious gates as they are employed in Pojo Chinul's huatou meditation. A comparison is made betweenthe Zenuse of language and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of visibility, Julia Kristeva's idea of the semiotic and the symbolic, and Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, in an attempt to provide a paradigm to understand the Zen Buddhist vision
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62Zen and zen philosophy of language: A soteriological approachDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 1 (2): 209-228. 2002.
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39One korean's approach to buddhism: The mom/momjit paradigm (review)Philosophy East and West 61 (3): 576-578. 2011.
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43Ethics of Tension: A Buddhist-Postmodern Ethical ParadigmTaiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 10 (19): 123-142. 2013.This essay considers an ethical paradigm that can be drawn from Buddhist and postmodern philosophy. Ethics is a practical branch of philosophy and an ethical paradigm is closely connected to the fundamental structure and tenets of a philosophical system. That ethics is a practical branch of philosophy also indicates that meaning and value of a certain ethical paradigm is directly related to the environments in which the paradigm is understood and practiced. In considering an ethical paradigm bas…Read more
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516Zen language in our time: The case of pojo Chinul's huatou meditationPhilosophy East and West 55 (1): 80-98. 2005.Zen philosophy of language is discussed by exploring the concepts of live and dead words, involvement with meaning and involvement with words, and the three mysterious gates as they are employed in Pojo Chinul's huatou meditation. A comparison is made between the Zen use of language and Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of visibility, Julia Kristeva's idea of the semiotic and the symbolic, and Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, in an attempt to provide a paradigm to understand the Zen Buddhist vision
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Introduction: Philosophy, non-philosophy, and comparative philosophyIn Jin Y. Park & Gereon Kopf (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Lexington Books. 2009.
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8Buddhisms and Deconstructions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2006.Buddhisms and Deconstructions considers the connection between Buddhism and Derridean deconstruction, focusing on the work of Robert Magliola. Fourteen distinguished contributors discuss deconstruction and various Buddhisms—Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese —followed by an afterword in which Magliola responds directly to his critics.
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The double : Merleau-ponty and Chinul on thinking and questioningIn Jin Y. Park & Gereon Kopf (eds.), Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, Lexington Books. 2009.
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27Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 by Hwansoo Ilmee KimPhilosophy East and West 65 (2): 630-632. 2015.