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Our understanding of the relationship between Confucian literati and the Buddhist world of the late Chosŏn period has been biased not only by the dominant ideological setting of the period but also by our own contemporary perspective. This article attempts to extend the examination of this relationship away from ideological, religious and philosophical perspectives to a sociological and anthropological one. By retracing and reorganizing some anecdotes of the life of Tasan, it draws attention to the evolution of that well-known Confucian scholar’s attitudes towards Buddhism and analyzes some factors behind his drawing closer to the Buddhist world.
