Uri Kaplan is lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
摘要
What do Buddhist monks learn about Buddhism? Which part of their enormous canonical and non-canonical literature do they choose to focus on as the required curriculum in their training, and what do they elect to leave out? The cultural depository of Buddhism includes some four thousand canonical texts, hundreds of other historical works, modern textbooks, oral traditions, and more recently, an increasingly growing body of online material. The sheer diversity of this mass of information makes the pedagogical choices of monastics worthy of close study.
Monastic Education in Korea is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, it illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program—only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years. Through a detailed analysis of these modifications, the work demonstrates how Korean Buddhist reformers today tend to imitate the educational practices and canonize the textual totems of the contemporary international discipline of Buddhist studies, and how, by doing so, they ultimately transform the local Korean tradition from a particular brand of Chinese-centered scholastic Chan into the inclusive, pluralistic, Indian-focused Buddhism common in English-language introductions to the religion.
The book further examines the proliferation of diverse graduate schools for the sangha, as well as the creation of a novel examination system for all monastics. It reveals some of the realities of operating large monastic organizations in contemporary Asia and portrays a living, vibrant Buddhist community that is constantly negotiating with modern values and reformulating its core orthodoxies.
目次
Frontmatter i Contents vii List of Tables ix Series Editor’s Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: What Should Buddhist Monks Know about Buddhism? 1 CHAPTER ONE. The Traditional Curriculum 12 CHAPTER TWO. Monastic Education in Twentieth-Century Korea 40 CHAPTER THREE. Buddhism Simulating Buddhist Studies: Twenty-First-Century Reforms 70 CHAPTER FOUR. Toward Buddhist Pluralism: Monastic Graduate Schools and Internationalization 96 CHAPTER FIVE. Monastic Examinations and Bureaucratic Ranks 118 Conclusions 141 Appendix A: Chogye Order Official Curricula for Monastic Graduate Schools 145 Appendix B: Schedule of the 2014 Chogye Order Postulant Education Program 153 Appendix C: Glossary of Principal Curricular Titles and Terms 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 195 Index 217
