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“Let’s Propagate the Dharma”: A Critical Survey of the Activities of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism’s Seventh Dharma Propagation Bureau

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The Jogye Order has been facing a deepening crisis since the turn of the millennium. The rapid decline in membership had been compounded by a growing loss of confidence in the order’s monastic leadership following a succession of scandals in the 1990s ...
Cheonghwan Park, Kyungrae Kim
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Postulant Education within the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism: A Critical Examination of Its Past, Its Present, and the Issues Facing Its Future

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Over the last three decades of evolution, the Jogye Order’s postulant education system has made considerable progress in standardizing, centralizing, and modernizing Buddhist education for aspiring monastics. As celebrated by the order’s 2022 publication
Cheonghwan Park, Kyungrae Kim
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Covid-19 and Korean Buddhism: Assessing the Impact of South Korea’s Coronavirus Epidemic on the Future of Its Buddhist Community [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2021
While the Covid-19 pandemic has altered many aspects of life in South Korea over 2020, its impact on South Korea’s religious landscape has been enormous as the country’s three major religions (Catholicism, Buddhism, and Protestant Christianity) have ...
Cheonghwan Park, Kyungrae Kim
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Korean Buddhism Abroad: A Critical Examination of Overseas Propagation Strategies of Jogye Order’s Hanmaum Seon Center

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In the decades following the Korean War (1950–1953), support from Korea’s Jogye Order, the largest of Korea’s Buddhist sects, was instrumental for establishing Korean Buddhism overseas.
Cheonghwan Park, Kyungrae Kim
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Some Contemporary Dilemmas of Korean Buddhism: A Critical Review of the Jogye Order’s 2018 Periodic Report

open access: yesReligions, 2019
According to the Jogye Order’s 2018 periodic report, the average age of monks is increasing and the number of monks is decreasing. In order to offer solutions to these problems, the report presents and analyzes by dividing those themes into six sub-
Kyungrae Kim   +3 more
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Migrant Buddhists and Korean “Multiculturalism”—A Brief Survey of the Issues Surrounding Support for South Korea’s Immigrant Buddhist Communities [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2020
The three largest Korean religious organizations have worked to provide material, educational, medical, and social support to the various growing migrant communities.
Kyungrae Kim, Cheonghwan Park
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A Study on the Propagation Policy of the Jogye Order:

open access: yesThe Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, 2022
Jong-man Oh
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