Youn-mi KIM

Invited Researcher at Maison Suger Stay in France: from December 25th 2022 to February 6th 2023
Youn-mi Kim

Youn-mi Kim is Associate Professor of Asian Art History at Ewha Womans University. Prior to joining the Ewha faculty, she worked as Assistant Professor at Yale University (2012-16) and Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (2011-12). She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. A grantee of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies 2018, she is currently completing her book manuscript on the Buddhist architecture of the Liao dynasty (907-1125).

The project

Title: Examination of Medieval Chinese and Korean Fu-talismans in Global Perspective

Keywords: Buddhist art, architectural history, ritual, pagoda, talisman

Selected publications

  • “How to Fill an Intellectual Lacuna: Towards a Global Historical Approach to Korean Buddhist  Talismans” [written in Korean], co-authored with Moon Sang-leun. Yŏksa wa hyŏnsil 124 (2022): 485-516.
  • “A Ritual Embodied in Architectural Space: The Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī and Yingxian Timber Pagoda from the Liao Empire.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 30, no.2 (2020): 53-108.
  • “From Esoteric to Pure Land and Huayan Buddhism: Uṣṇīṣavijayā Dhāraṇī Mandala in Liao Buddhism.” Misulsahak yŏn’gu 美術史學硏究307 (2020): 153-184.
  • “Surrogate Body inside the Sacred Body: Used Clothing in Korean Buddhist Statues.” In Pokchang, Special Issue of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 28 (2019): 101-131.
  • “Buddhist Ontology and Miniaturization: Enacting Ritual with Nonhuman Agency.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 27, no.2 (2017): 39-69.
  • “Virtual Pilgrimage and Virtual Geography: Power of Liao Miniature Pagodas (907-1125).” Religions 8, no. 10 (2017): 1-29.
  • New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ, Early Korea Project Occasional Series, edited by Youn-mi Kim (Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, Harvard University, 2013).
  • Pokchang, Special Issue of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 28 (2020), published by École française d'Extrême-Orient. Co-edited with James Robson (Harvard University) and Seunghye Lee (Leeum Samsung Museum of Art)
  • Dhāraṇī and Mantra in Ritual, Art, and Text, Special Issue of International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 30, no. 2 (December, 2020), published by the Academy of Buddhist Studies at Dongguk University. Co-edited with Paul Copp (Chicago University)
Published at 3 February 2023