In the British Museum’s Korea Gallery can be found a wood block printed book, The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, written by Korea’s most famous Confucian scholar, Yi Hwang (이황, also known by his pen name, Toegye, 퇴계) (1501-1570). The volume is on loan from the British Library. The work was completed in 1568 and … [Read More]
Author: Yi Hwang
Selected publications by Yi Hwang
- A Korean Confucian Way of Life and Thought: The Chasŏngnok (Record of Self-Reflection) by Yi Hwang (T’oegye) tr Edward Y J Chung, University of Hawai'i Press 2015
- Toegye and Gobong Write Letters tr Louis Choi, Jain Publishing 2005
- To Become a Sage: The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, Columbia University Press 1988
Selected titles about Yi Hwang
- Edward Y J Chung: The Moral and Religious Thought of Yi Hwang (Toegye): A Study of Korean Neo-Confucian Ethics and Spirituality, Palgrave 2021
- Hyoungchan Kim: Korean Confucianism: The Philosophy and Politics of Toegye and Yulgok, Rowman + Littlefield 2018
- Anthology: Neo-Confucianism in Korea ed Chai-shin Yu, Jain Publishing 2016
- Edward Y J Chung: The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’Oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications For Self-Cultivation, SUNY 1995
- Michael C Kalton, Oaksook C Kim, Samuel Yamashita, Sung Bae Park, Tu Wei-ming, Youngchan Ro: The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought, SUNY 1994