The Review of Korean Studies
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ISSN : 1229-0076
Goguryeo Buddhism: An Imported Religion in a Multi-ethnic Warrior Kingdom
Abstract
The scanty evidence from histories, inscriptions on Buddhist statues, and tomb excavations shows that Goguryeo Buddhism had only a short history from ca. 400 CE until the collapse of the kingdom. This Buddhism was largely that of prayers for benefits and was probably centered on the royal court and supported by Han Chinese and Xianbei settlers. Buddhism was introduced into Goguryeo from Xianbei dominated regimes that controlled the north China plain, and a key site related to this introduction seems to have been Shentong Monastery in Shandong Province. It is likely that Seungnang, championed as the only known Buddhist scholar from Goguryeo, was not from Goguryeo. That Buddhism had only shallow roots in Goguryeo is demonstrated by the lack of Buddhist cave complexes, cliff engravings or large statues, and by the ease with which the last Goguryeo rulers shifted support towards Daoism.
- keywords
- Goguryeo Buddhism, ancient Korean history, Seungnang, Shentong Monastery, Xianbei, 고구려 불교, 한국고대사, 승랑, 신통사, 선비족
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