Buddhism has a sixteen-hundred-year history in Korea. Contemporary Korean Buddhism is distinguished from Chinese Buddhism by the importance it assigns to meditation, and from Japanese Buddhism by its relative lack of strong sectarian divisions....

ZHIYAN (602–668), second patriarch of the Huayan school of Buddhism in China. Born in the town of Tianshui near Chang'an, the capital of the Tang dynasty, Zhiyan was the son of an official in Shenzhou province. When Zhiyan was twelve...

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. Early Korean monks believed that the traditions they received from China were internally inconsistent....

By Richard Hughes Seager. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 314 pp. n.p. The third title in the "Columbia Contemporary American Religion" series, Richard Hughes Seager's Buddhism in America, is an eminently readable and accessible survey of Buddhist history, tradition, and organizations...

RE-ENCHANTMENT Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West By Jeffery Paine. Norton. 288 pp. $24.95 Tibetan Buddhism has entered the American mainstream in the past two decades, surpassing even the 1960s and '70s heyday of popular experimentation with Eastern religions. Why...