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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Andrew,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You may already know the article by John Jorgensen who argues in great detail that the Tan’gun myth is a Koryo product, composed under the influence
of Buddhism. The bibliographical details you can find in Breuker’s book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Boudewijn Walraven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Koreanstudies [mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreanstudies.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew<br>
<b>Sent:</b> maandag 7 september 2015 11:20<br>
<b>To:</b> koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KS] Three topics - Re: Senyeon-ga; Dan'gun discourse; teaching Buddhist history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Three separate topics/questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) <b><i>Se'nyeon-ga </i>response</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank-you kindly for the very useful links.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've taken the Han Yong-u (<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">韓永愚</span>)
<span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">해재</span> article on the SNY library site, but couldn't see the Chin Chaegyo article Sem Vermeesch mentions, but certainly I'd be interested.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">At first glance the <span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">歷代世年歌</span>
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">原本</span>(<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">縮小影印</span>)
<span style="font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"">외</span> version also available from the SNU library doesn't seem to be the same as the book version I had photographed, but I should spend some time looking at it before making assumptions!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2)<b> Dan'gun</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because my thesis is a survey of popular historiography focusing on early Korea, much of it discusses treatment of Dan'gun. I've developed some of my own thoughts/observations on this subject and recently drafted a conference paper, a part
of which is an attempted response to Breuker's treatment of Dan'gun in his <i>Establishing a Pluralist Society in Medieval Korea</i> (2010); this is meant only in the spirit of developing (or at least revisiting) the discourse, as in all other respects I've
found Breuker (2010) - and his other writings on historiography - extremely enlightening and infinitely more sophisticated than anything I am capable of myself.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In relation to Korean mythography (and my thesis), I have just been reading Gardiner's 1982 Korean Journal articles "The Legends of Koguryŏ" which are essentially annotated translations of the primary sources.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My question is, are there any classic (or recent) articles of this high quality that discuss the Hwan'ung-Dan'gun myth? I recognize there has been a greater tradition of scholarly interest in the Dongmyeong/Jumong myths (going back to Japanese
colonial work such as Shiratori's seminal 1938 article "The Legend of Kin Tung-ming.." in
<i>Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko</i>), no doubt in large part because it is much earlier attested mythology; meanwhile Dan'gun has been largely high-jacked by pseudo scholarship and modern nationalist discourse, which I imagine has turned
most people off.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(If anyone might be interested in my draft paper - although it's rather a mess - I would be happy to share it in order to stimulate some discussion and ideas).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) <b>Teaching Buddhist history</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This term I am teaching an introductory undergraduate course "Premodern Korean history" which I last prepared and taught two years ago. Whilst I need to revise my notes in general, a point I remember is that I was unsatisfied with the narrative
of Korean Buddhist history (or rather lack of). My problem was, the way I taught it, each of the famous monks seem to unify disparate or polarized schools of Buddhist thought at different periods, culminating with Jinul (<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">知訥</span>).
No doubt this is a shallow understanding, so my question is how can I improve on this. How can Korean Buddhist history be taught as an interesting narrative? (Recognizing developmental narratives maybe artificial - but still useful), or are there better approaches?
Has anyone else encountered similar problems?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For reference, I mainly rely on Grayson's <i>Korea-A Religious History</i> (2002) which I find works quite well as a general survey on premodern Korean intellectual history (and even Korean history in general); I take a few more details
from Buswell's works too.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">sincerely<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew Logie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Helsinki)<o:p></o:p></p>
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