Clerical marriage and buddhist modernity in early twentieth-century Korea

This dissertation examines the issue of clerical marriage among Korean Buddhist clerics during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. The majority of celibate monks and scholars in South Korea accuse clerical marriage of bringing about the deterioration of “pure” Korean Buddhist tradition. This diss...

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Main Author: Park, Jeongeun
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58303