동산대종사 정화사상의 현재적 재조명

Abstract

In this paper, the Buddhism purification movement was not thought as a chain of events caused by the Rhee Syngman presidential instruction on May 21th, 1954, but the historical movements to fulfill the great mercy and compassion of Sakyamuni Buddha to ask his followers to make the world of suffering, sabha, the Buddhist Elysium, Sukkāvatī. The effects of flow of Buddhism history on the modern Korean Buddhism purification movement and the formation of the tendency of thought of Dongsan buddhist priest about Buddhism purification are investigated. The core issues and movements due to the social situation at the time in the ancient India, China, three kingdoms-Goguryeo, Shilla and Baekje-, the South and the North of Korea-Balhae and Shilla-, Koryo, Chosŏn dynasty, Japanese colonial era, and Republic of Korea and their effects are also surveyed. The tendency of thought of Dongsan buddhist priest about Buddhism purification was not formed and effected by the special situations after Korean liberation from Japanese colonial rule, but by the universal values of human freedom and liberty and manifestation of the Buddhist Elysium. At these points, the tendency of thought of Dongsan buddhist priest about Buddhism purification was proved his real worth and developed as the spirit of the twenty-first century.