운문사의 寺格과 眀星의 불교 인문정신

Abstract

This article is about the research for the dignity of modern Woonmun monastery which gained great fame as the educational ground of Bhiksuni. And also, I illustrated the educational method and ideology of the great buddhist monk, Myeongseong(眀星) who boosted and made up the dignity of modern Woonmun monastery. The Woonmun monastery is the old temple with a long history of about 1400 years, since its establishment at the Silla period. In this history, it gained fame as the temple of Seon school in the time of Goryeo, with the feature of the cardle of the Silla chivalry that Dharma teacher Wongwang led in the Silla period. However, its fame markedly declined after the Joseon period. Since 1955, the Woonmun monastery became the center of Buddhist nuns' temples and Sangha education as passing through the Buddhist purification movement. Since the 1970s, the reverend Myeongseong has taken in charge of a lecturer and abbot. For many decades, she reformed and rebuilt the monastery for making today's Woonmunsa. That is, the reverend Myeongseong became the fifth ower of reestablishment. The reverend Myeongseong who created such a history strived for Buddhist nun's education as proceeding the open, doctrinal, healthy education. This was the modernization and the globalization of education coming from the wish to make Buddhist nuns as talented persons. Such the reverened Myeongseong's educational philosophy can be called Buddhist Humanial Spirit(人文精神). But this feature may come from the influence by teacher reverends who taught the Myeongseong. The teacher of those reverends was Park Hanyeong. He was the great master who opened a buddhist school at Gaewoonsa in Seoul from 1926 to 1944, and taught monks and intellects. His buddhist academic tradition and humanial spirit were succeeded to Myeongseong, so her educational philosophy was able to be the buddhist humanial spirit with historicity.