Professor Seong Uk Kim receives the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award

Seong Uk Kim has received the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award, awarding him $15,000 towards his field research in Korea. The 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.