불교계 국제개발협력의 현황과 과제

Abstract

The international development cooperation in Korean Buddhist community are expanding to the Third World. The cooperation is later than those of the other religious community in Korea, but it has been developed actively during these 10 years. The start was by the Korea JTS in India at 1991 and after the starting such Korean Buddhist communities like JTS for the international development cooperation have being increased. The representative NGO groups are Korea JTS, GoodHands, Lotusworld, thepromise etc. About 20 groups of them are expanding their business overseas, from the Buddhist nations like Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia to the African nations. The purpose of this study is to propose the developing directions and review the international cooperation of Korean Buddhist communities that are trying to put into practice “the sharing” and “the mercy” to the poor and the humble in abroad. The purpose of the international cooperations is consist with the buddhism. So the international cooperation trend is inevitable according to the Buddhistic theory of casuality. To exam the purpose, above all, this study observed the developing process, prospects and tasks of the Korean Buddhist’s international development cooperations. After the reviewing, this study proposed two types of model; Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and Catuddisa Sangha movement. Also, this study suggested that Korean Buddhist international cooperations communities should construct the supporting systems for the international disasters, prepare the activation plan and set the visions of the international development cooperation in Korean Buddhist community.