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Contents Acknowledgments ix Translator’s Introduction: Kim Iryŏp, Her Life and Thought 1 Part One 1 Preface 29 2 Life 33 3 Buddhism and Culture 45 4 In Memory of the Great Master Man’gong on the Fifteenth Anniversary of His Death 55 5 On New Year’s Day of the Twenty-Fifth Year after Joining the Monastery 78 6 A Proposal to the World Fellowship of Buddhists Conference 87 7 Why Has Buddhism Launched a Purification Movement? 92 8 Is the Mind One or Two? To Mr. C., Who Has Recently Converted to Catholicism 97 9 What Is Faith? Contemplation upon Reading a Letter from My Friend M. 110 10 The Path to No-Mind: A Letter to Mr. R. 120 11 Having Burned Away My Youth: A Letter to Mr. B. 140 12 With a Returned Gift in My Hand 199 13 Having Prepared a Clean Copy of My Master’s Manuscript (by Yi Wŏlsong) 206 Part Two 14 Return to Emptiness 213 15 Meditation and the Attainment of the Mind 224 viii Contents 16 Prayer and Chanting 227 17 Path to Eternity: A Message to Journalists 229 Notes 237 Character Glossary 275 Bibliography 279 Index 289 ...

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