불교정화운동 연구, 회고와 전망

Abstract

This dissertation is for the thesis on the result of research for the Purification Campaign of Buddhism which has an important historical meaning in modern Korean Buddhism history. The Purification Campaign of Korean Buddhism was a salient event, campaign, theology, and activity in the Korean Buddhism during 1950~60. And the Purification Campaign regulated the history of Korean Buddhism during 1970~80, it settled the base of the reforming religious order in 1994. So, the research of the Purification Campaign has the importance, various facets. From this aspect, it is meaningful to check the result of research on the Purification Campaign, to reconsider for the problems of researches so far, and to draw a new research subject. With this point, I preferentially examined the result of research on the Purification Campaign in this dissertation. In detailed, I looked over the understanding, characteristic, ideology, background, development, leaders, succession, and source books of the Purification Campaign etc. In such a background, I suggested the characteristic and outlook of the research on the Purification Campaign. I pointed out that, as the related for the research of Purification Campaign here, first, Basic·Professionalism· Appropriateness researches were mixed together, second, there were positive aspects, third, there was a need to keep objectivity, forth, it was leaning to have a focus on the Old Masters, fifth, there was a requirement to have case researches. And also, as the part to have a reference for the research in this field hereafter, I suggested that, first, there be a need to do a research with colony buddhism, second, there be a comparative research with purification campaign and reforming religious order, third, there be a need to do the research for the buddhism concept, Buddhism for the country, ethnic Buddhism, purification Buddhism, and civil Buddhism etc, fifth, there be a need to do a research for the interrelationship with the country and Buddhism. I look forward to seeing that this research I wrote could give some help as a reference for the researches on the Purification of Korean Buddhism, the history of modern Korean Buddhism, and the Campaign history of reforming Korean religious order etc.