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Buddhism, Digital Technology and New Media in Korea Ŭisang’s Ocean Seal Diagram
Introduction: Ŭisang’s Life and Legacies, Hyangsoon Yi Part 1 The Ocean Seal Diagram in Theory and Praxis 1. Ŭisang’s Understanding of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra as Seen through the Seal-Diagram Symbolizing the Dharma Realm of the One Vehicle, Yeonshik Choe and Richard D. McBride II 2. The Heart-Smile Training: The Compassion-Based Intervention Program of Korean Sŏn in the Al Digital Era, Misan W.D. Kim and Hee Jung Min 3. From Daily Devotions to Ceremonial Paths and Talismans: The Functions of Ŭisang’s Seal-Diagram in Contemporary Korean Buddhism, ichard D. McBride II Part 2. Transcultural Dialogue with Ŭisang 4. A Whiteheadian Process Critique of Huayan Buddhism: Creative Synthesis and Emergent Novelty, Steve Odin 5. The One, the Many, and Time in Deleuze and Huayan Buddhism, Ronald Bogue 6. Technics and the Ocean Seal, Ronald Bogue Part 3 Ŭisang and Digitality 7. The Internet as a Technological Manifestation of Indra’s Net: Ŭsang’s Ocean Seal as Unifying Model for Art, Religion, Metaphysics, and Technology, Steve Odin 8. The Mediatization of Buddhism in Digital Media: The Contemporary Reflection of Ŭisang’s Hwaŏ Thought in Video Games, Dal Yong Jin 9. The Apparition of an Appearance: Artist Notes on the Performance of Wisdom, Mark Amerika and Laura Hyunjhee Kim Part 4 Time and Salvation in the Ocean Seal 10. The Journey as Meditation: A Buddhist Reading of O Chŏng-hŭi’s “Words of Farewell” Hyangsoon Yi 11. The Hwaŏm Allegory of Time in Marcel Aymé’s “La Carte” Hyangsoon Yi, Misan W.D. Kim and Myeongbeop S.O. Chu Postscript, Hyangsoon Yi
Biography
Hyangsoon Yi is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include Buddhist aesthetics in literature and visual arts, Korean Buddhist film, history of Korean Buddhist Nuns, women’s monastic practice tradition, and Buddhism and Western literature.
Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished SFU professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada. His major research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia.
