Professor Seong Uk Kim receives the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award
CKR congratulates Seong Uk Kim, recipient of the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award, awarding him $15,000 towards his field research in Korea. His manuscript, “Evolving Tradition: revisiting the Buddhist-Confucian relationship in East Asia” (tentative), investigates the invention and reinvention of Korean Buddhism from the 17th to the 19th century, rethinking standard narratives of the Buddhist decline and decay during the period, and, at the same time, explores the meaning of such development within the broader East Asian context in terms of the Buddhist-Confucian relationship.