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Ha Dongsan (1890-1965) served as the highest patriarch of the Jogye Order, the largest denomination of Korean Buddhism, from November 3, 1954 to August 12, 1955 and again from August 13, 1958 to April 11, 1962. His life and ideas discussed in this book were extremely influential in the formation of the current order. Korean Buddhism was radically changed by Japanese Buddhism during the Japanese occupation period, 1910 – 1945. Ha Dongsan led the Purification Buddhist Movement, 1954 – 1962 and as spiritual leader and the highest patriarch successfully recovered celibate monasticism and vegetarianism of traditional Korean Buddhism from Japanized Korean Buddhism. |
About t he Author:
Ven. Chanju Mun (Ordination Name: Seongwon) is the founder and chief editor of Blue Pine Books. He taught East Asian Buddhist Studies at the University of the West in Los Angeles between Summer 2004 and Spring 2007 and is currently teaching Buddhist philosophy at the University of Hawaii – Manoa beginning Fall 2007.
He received a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2002 and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Seoul National University in 1991. He has been a researcher at exiled Tibetan Drepung Monastic University in South India and at the University of Tokyo.
