Female Practitioners’ Religious Lives: The First Generation of Female Wŏn Buddhist Clerics

For Korean women, the Japanese colonial period was a transitional period in which Confucian patriarchal culture still prevailed, but some options for a social identity outside the home as “new women” were beginning to emerge. In this era, Sot’aesan, the founder of Wŏn Buddhism, put forward the teach...

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Main Author: Sung Ha Yun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/5/637