Kim Iryeop (Korean: 김일엽; Hanja: 金一葉; 28 April 1896 – 28 May 1971), also spelled Kim Iryŏp, was a South Korean writer, journalist, feminist activist, and Buddhist nun. Her given name was Kim Wonju ( 김원주 ; 金元周 ).

The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (김일엽 / 金一葉, 1896–1971) bear witness to Korea's encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp reflected on identity and existential loneliness in her poems, short stories, and autobiographical essays.

Why and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? The present volume aims to answer these questions by examining the life and philosophy of a Korean Zen Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971). The daughter of a pastor, Iryŏp began questioning Christian doctrine as …

The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) bear witness to Korea’s encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp reflected on identity and existential loneliness in her poems, short stories, and autobiographical essays.

Kim Iryŏp led a wide-ranging life that sometimes contained conflicting ideas and ideals. She was a devoted Christian who later became a Buddhist nun; she was a New Woman who demanded sexual liberation in her premonastic period, but afterward lived a life of celibacy.

Born a daughter of a fundamentalist evangelical Christian pastor from the vicinity of P’yongyang, the hotbed of Korean Protestantism (now the capitol of North Korea and the neme-sis of Christianity), Iryop was a “new woman” who received her edu-cation at the prestigious Ewha Hakdang school in Seoul, and, after her study in Tokyo, pioneered in wo...

Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) was a writer, new woman, and Zen Buddhist nun whose life offers us a panorama of modern Korean society. Modernity as a global phenomenon has brought changes in the way people understand the world and create values. Rationality, secularism, freedom, equality, and civil society are some of modernity’s major characteristics.

Feb 28, 2017 · With her Christian background and feminist activist perspective, Kim Iryŏp offers a creative interpretation of Buddhist philosophy as a system of thought that engages with lived experience.

Jan 1, 2020 · Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp, published in 2017. Inquiry on gender in world religions emerged as an important topic among religious scholars starting around the mid- 1980s.

Kim Iryop (1896–1971) was a Korean Buddhist nun and a pioneering feminist intellectual. Select wisdom from sources old and new. How Realistic Is the Buddhism of ‘The White Lotus’? Tricycle talks with scholars, teachers, and former monastics …