백용성 萬日參禪結社會의 전개와 성격

Abstract

This study is to look into the history of the assembled society for the ten-thousand day meditation which was started by the modern high priest, Baek, Yongseong who insisted on Seonyul Gyeomhaeng 禪律兼行(carrying out the dynaya and the vinaya at the same time) at the Mangwol monastery in Oct, 1925. The assembled monastery set up the rules, 午後不食(do not eat after the lunch), 平時默言(be silent if not an important matter), and 洞口不出(do not go out of the temple) and about 30 persons buddhist practitioners joined together and practiced the Ganhwa Seon there. However, the society moved to the Naewon hermitage of the Tongdo monastery in April, 1926 and was dismantled naturally in Aug, 1927. Actually, this assembly was led by the high intelligent priest Baek, Yongseong and there has been some information about the content of the society and the list of some buddhist monks who took part in, though related few researches have been made so far. Because there was no any log which tells enough the participants of the society. Fortunately, I could find out that the list of participants of the society was in the newly excavated sources of the great master Baek, Yongseong's collections which were recently published. Based on it, I analyzed the assembled society with the purpose and its activities which I could not carry out exactly while doing researches for the reverend Baek, Yongseong. Through the facts that the society was established under the Japanese imperialism and had its unique ideological direction with the high priest Baek, Yongseong and other monks who participated in the assembly, it is likely to discover various historical issues. In this paper, I tried to do the integrated understanding by focusing on the content of the society, its historical meaning, and the information related to Baek, Yongseong. As it requires more study on the ideology of the society, its succession, Ganhwa Seon, and the analysis of the participants, I look forward to having this research be helpful to the studies for the Seon Buddhism under the Japanese imperialism, the purpose of establishing the society in the modern time, and the reverend Baek, Yongseong.