식민지 조선과 불교

Abstract

Today, various discussions are actively in progress in History Academia and among Buddhists regarding when the modernization of Korean Buddhism began and what the indicators of the modernization of Buddhism was. This study focused on ‘the marriage of monks’ among various indicators of the modernization of Korean Buddhism and attempted to look into its trend among Japanese Buddhists in Japan the process of accepting the marriage of monks and in Joseon during the Japanese colonial period. For this purpose, it considered the background of the start of the marriage of monks in Japanese Buddhism based on the existing studies and the journey in which it came to and was exposed to the colonial Joseon, centering around the comments of Baek Yong-seong and Han Yong-un. What this study considered was that Baek Yong-seong and Han Yong-un presumed each different look of the marriage of monks. Han Yong-un modelled the marriage of monks in Japan and dreamed the resurrection of Joseon Buddhism while Baek Yong-seong longed for expelling it, regarding it as an image of apostasy, which is an ‘evil’ that must not be mixed in Joseon Buddhism. Han Yong-un who experienced modern aspects of Japanese Buddhism attempted to suggest the marriage of monks as a direction in which Korean Buddhism should proceed. Like this, regarding the issue of the marriage of monks in Korean Buddhism, the image of the marriage of monks in South Korea as well as the image of the marriage of monks in Korean Buddhism would possibly be considered more specifically when a perspective that could look at an external space (Japan) simultaneously instead of the understanding in us (Joseon) is provided.