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Contributors Eun-su Cho is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National Universty. She previously taught in the Department of Asian Languages and Culture at the University of Michigan. Her research interests range from Indian Abhidharma Buddhism to Korean traditions of Buddhist thought. Her publications include “From Buddha’s Speech to Buddha’s Essence: Philosophical Discussions of Buddha-vacana in India and China,” Asian Philosophy (2004); “The Uses and Abuses of WÆnhyo and the ‘T’ong Pulgyo’ Narrative,” Journal of Korean Studies (2004); “WÆnch’„k’s Place in the East Asian Buddhist Tradition,” in Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed., Currents and Countercurrents (2005); cotranslator of Jikji Simgyeong: The Essential Passages Directly Pointing at the Essence of the Mind, with John Jorgensen (2005) and many other articles in Korean. Heung-sik Heo is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History in the Graduate School of Korean Studies at the Academy of Korean Studies. Specializing in the KoryÆ period, he has written eleven books, including Kory† kwag† chedosa y†n’gu (A Study of the Civil Service Examination System of the KoryÆ Period, 1981), Kory† sahoesa y†n’gu (A Study of Social Structure in the KoryÆ Period, 1981), and Kory† Pulgyosa y†n’gu (A Study of Buddhism in the KoryÆ Period, 1986), and has published numerous articles. John Jorgensen is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Griffith University, Australia. His recent publications include Inventing Huineng : Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch’an (2005); “Problems in the Comparison of Korean and Chinese Buddhism: From the 16th Century to the 19th Century,” in Geumgang Center for Buddhist Studies, comp., Korean Buddhism in East Asian Perspectives (2007); and “Korea as a Source for the Regeneration of Chinese Buddhism: The 201 202 CONTRIBUTORS Evidence of Ch’an and Son Literature,” in Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed., Currents and Countercurrents (2005). Ji-Young Jung is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Ewha Womans’ University. She received her Ph.D. in history from Sogang University. Her research interests relate to marginalized women (widows, single women, concubines, and remarried women) and gender politics of the ChosÆn dynasty. Young Mi Kim is Professor in the Department of History at Ewha Womans University. Her major works include Silla Pulgyo Sasangsay †n’gu (The History of Silla Buddhism, 1994), and as a co-author with Ki-back Yi, T’ae-jin Yi, and T’ae-yÆng Kim, Han’guk Sasang-sa Pangp†pnon (The Methodology in Study of the Intellectual History of Korea, 1997). She writes primarily on the influence of Buddhism on KoryÆ women and the practice of Buddhist nuns. Pori Park is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She has recently published “The Buddhist Purification Movement in Postcolonial South Korea: Restoring Clerical Celibacy and State Intervention,” in J. Craig Jenkins and Esther E. Gottlieb, eds., Identity Conflicts: Can Violence Be Regulated? (2007); “A Korean Buddhist Response to Modernity: The Doctrinal Underpining of Han Yongun’s (1879–1944) Reformist Thought,” Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 20.1 (2007); and “Buddhism in Contemporary Korea,” in Stephen Berkwtiz, ed., Buddhism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspective (2006). Tonino Puggioni is an independent scholar who works with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and teaches Korean History and Culture at the University of Rome. He received his Ph.D. in History from Seoul National University with a thesis on the development of KoryÆ’s PÆpsang sect. His publications include articles on KoryÆ religious exchanges with the Yuan dynasty. ...

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