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Contributors Robert E. Buswell, Jr. is a graduate student in Sanskrit, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His current research topics are the relationship between early Korean Son and Buddhist apocryphal scriptures, and the Vaibhäsika theory of cittaviprayuktasamskaras as found in the Chinese translation of the Abhidharmamah âvibhâsasastra. His most recent publication is The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1983). Donald N. Clark is Assistant Professor of history at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He is presently conducting research on the development of missionary-sponsored educational institutions in Korea. His most recent publication is "The Missionary Impact: Reflections on a Century of Korean-American Relations," Korean Culture 3, no. 2 (July, 1982):26-33. Also, he has contributed a chapter entitled "Ming-Korean Tributary Relations, 1368-1644" to Frederick W. Mote and Denis Twitchett, eds., The Cambridge History of China, vol. 8 Ming China (forthcoming). Kichung Kim is Professor of English at San Jose State University. Yönung Kwön is Associate Professor of Korean history at Kyungpook National University in Taegu, Korea. He has been researching the institutional history of the early Yi dynasty. Gari Ledyard is Professor of Korean history, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University and was a former student of Michael Rogers. Ledyard's special research interests extend from the Paekche state to sirhak scholars of the late Yi dynasty. Mark Peterson is Executive Director of the Korean-American Educational Commission, Seoul, and a doctoral candidate at Harvard University . ...

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