Brief notes from the recent talk at SOAS, which probably involve getting hold of the wrong end of several sticks… Han Yongun was the most renowned Buddhist nationalist poet of the colonial period. He was jailed for his involvement in the March 1st movement, and composed his famous poetry cycle “Silence of my love” while … [Read More]
Author: Han Yongun (한용운 1879-1944)
Selected publications by Han Yongun
- Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to ‘Socialism with a Buddhist Face’ tr Owen Miller, Vladimir Tikhonov, Global Oriental 2008
- Everything Yearned For (님의 침묵, 1925) tr Francisca Cho, Wisdom Publications 2005
- Love’s Silence and Other Poems (님의 침묵, 1925) tr Kim Jaihiun, Ronald B Hatch, Ronsdale Press 1985
Selected titles about Han Yongun
- Anthology: Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism ed Jin Y Park, SUNY 2010
- Pori Park: Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule, Univ of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies 2009
Han Yongun: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project
More details about this Friday’s seminar at SOAS Friday, January 29th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Jung-Shim Lee, Leiden University Han Yongun’s posthumous novel Death: Questioning a monk’s nation-building project Abstract: This paper will explore how a Korean monk Han Yongun produced Confucian-inspired nation-building ideas in his novel Death (죽음, 1924). Han Yongun (韓龍雲, 1879-1944) … [Read More]