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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University of British Columbia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58303 |