We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea, published by the University of Washington Press and included in its Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies series. The book's author is Juhn Ahn, an Associate Professor … [Read more...]
Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Juhn Y. Ahn (University of Washington Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Two issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist … [Read more...]
