Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
by
Juhn Y. Ahn
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n 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 history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism...