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Jungmin HA Jungmin Ha is a senior researcher at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Sogang University. She received her doctoral degree in art history from Duke University. Although her primary research has focused on Buddhist art and culture in early medieval period of China and Korea, she has extensively researched on a wide spectrum of art historical topics, including stone Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist steles, and patrons’ religious and sociocultural aspirations reflected in Buddhist art. Her current research interests are murals on temples and Buddhist scriptures engraved on stone in Myanmar, and wood blocks for printing the Buddhist scriptures in Vietnam. jungminha23@gmail.com Address Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University, 35 Baekbeom-ro (Sinsu-dong), Mapogu, Seoul, 04107, Republic of Korea |
Education & Positions
Researcher, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University (2021. 11 – Present)
Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University (2016 - Present)
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in the US. 2009-2016
Ph.D., Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies
Dissertation Title: “Shaping Religious Aspiration Through Buddhist Words: Buddhist Mountain Inscriptions in Shandong Province During Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE) in China.”
Seoul National University, South Korea. 1998-2001
Master of Art, Department of Archaeology and Art History
Seoul National University, South Korea. 1994-1998
Bachelor of Arts, Department of Anthropology
Select Publications
Jungmin Ha, 2023.“Unveiling Sacred Significance: Exploring the Meaning of the Yeoramgok Standing Rock-Carved Buddha Statue at Mount Namsan in Gyeongju,” Hanguk godaesa tamgu (The Study of Early Korean History), vol. 44: 255-292.
Jungmin Ha, 2023. “Buddhist Woodblocks in Northern Vietnam: The Characteristics, Preservation, and Meaning in the Context of Buddhist Literature in Vietnam,” Dong-a yeongu (Eastern Asian Studies), vol. 42, no. 1: 1-30.
Jungmin Ha, 2022. “A Remarkable Combination of Two Buddhist Narrative Scenes: The Offering of Dust by a Previous Life of King Aśoka and the Dīpaṃkara Jātaka Represented in Buddhist Sculptures during the Northern Dynasties,” Misulsa wa sigakmunhwa (Art History and Visual Culture), vol. 29: 282-317.
Jungmin Ha. 2021. “Reconsideration of the Lotus Sutra Inscribed on Stone at the Changlim Temple Site in Gyeongju,” Silla munhwa (Silla Culture), vol. 58: 387-418.
Jungmin Ha. 2021. “Reconsideration of the Authenticity over the Trübner Stele (I): Focusing on the Dedicatory Inscription and the Literary and Epigraphic Evidence,” Misulsa wa sigakmunhwa (Art History and Visual Culture), vol. 27: 246-285.
Jungmin Ha. 2020. “Book Review: Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770, by Dorothy C. Wong,” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 30-2: 263-267.
Jungmin Ha. 2020. “Stone Sutras at Fangshan, the Liao Canon, and the Goryeo Canon,” Hankuk Munhwa (Korean Culture), vol. 90: 3-35.
Jungmin Ha. 2020. “Murals on the Eastern Wall of the Lokahteikpan Temple in Bagan: Imaging a King of the Law in Myanmar,” Dong-a yeongu (Eastern Asian Studies), vol. 39, no. 1: 75-108.
Jungmin Ha. 2019. “Iron Buddhas from Chungju Area during the Early Goryeo Dynasty and Its Historical and Cultural Significance,” Inmun gwahak yeongu nonchong (The Journal of Humanities of Myong Ji University), vol 40, no. 2: 301-337.
Jungmin Ha. 2018. “Dating the Buddhist Carvings at Mt. Hongding in Shandong Province: A Use of the Buddhist Calendar in Early Medieval China,” Jungguksa yeongu (The Journal of Chinese Historical Rsearches), vol. 116: 67-107.
Research Interests
Mural paintings in Myanmar
Buddhist scriptures engraved on stone in Myanmar
Wood blocks for printing the Buddhist scriptures in Vietnam
Buddhist art in Vietnam
Early Medieval Chinese and Korean Buddhist Art and Culture