Preface

Part I. The Identity of Korean Buddhism

The Identity of Korean Buddhism within the Context of East Asian Buddhism…Kim Sang-hyon
The Emergence of a "Korean" Buddhist Tradition…Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

Part II. The Universality and Particularity of Korean Buddhism

State and Buddhism in the East Asian Countries in the Early Middle Ages…Sergei Vladimirovich Volkov
Cakravartin and the Relic-Cult in Early Shilla: Focusing on the Chinese Antecedents and Korean Adaptations…Pankaj Mohan
Esoteric Buddhism under the Kory? in the Light of the Greater East Asian Tradition…Henrik H. Sørensen
Problems in the Comparison of Korean and Chinese
Buddhism: From the 16th Century to the 19th Century
John Jorgensen
A Korean Biography of a Sogdian Monk in China, with
a Japanese Commentary: Ch"oe Ch"iw?n"s Biography
of Fazang, Its Values and Limitations
Jinhua Chen
Explanation of the Essence of the Two Hindrances
through Ten Canonical Texts
Charles Muller

Part III. Korean Buddhist Thoughts in East Asian Perspectives

Entering the Dharma-gate of Repeated Darkening: Towards
a Reassessment of Hwajaeng in Its Chinese Context
Jorg Plassen
W?nhyo(元曉)"s Effect on Fazang(法藏)"s Commentary of
Discipline-Faith Chapter, Discourse on the Awakening of Faith
in the Mah?y?na, and Their Attitudes toward Quotation
Ch"oe Ki-p"yo
The Synthesis of Huayan and Chan in ?isang"s School
Ishii Kosei
Ancient Japanese Huayan and Shilla Buddhism:
On Shilla Doctrine as Reflected in Huayan
Texts of the Nara and Heian Periods
Ch"oe Y?n-shik
Xuanzang"s Inference of Yog?c?ra and
Its Interpretation by Shilla Buddhists
Shigeki Moro