합리적인 사찰경영을 위한 제언 - 한국사찰의 미래지향적 포지셔닝 전략수립을 위하여 -

Abstract

Temple is like an organic body. Various resources are communicated by the medium of the space, and Buddhist cultures and customs of the time are created in the temples. The temple is like a bowl to put the contents of today's Korean Buddhism in, and to express them. Although the status of Buddhism becomes higher, and how much the status of the religious body becomes stronger, the future of Buddhism must be dark if the temple becomes hollow and becomes to be dead place. From now on we must not postpone looking for the identity of the temple and making specialized model. The biggest crisis in Korean Buddhism of today is that the investigation of the identity of the temple- which is like a cell and a basic unit of Buddhism- is weak and the status of disorder of the premodern, modern, and post modern Buddhism is continuing because the investigation depends on the individuals. We must not support the blind fundamentalism of tradition, or becoming bigger which is no longer realistic under our circumstances. The appropriate modeling of the temple under our circumstances is urgently needed for us. If we can't visualize these urgent tasks in the next few years, it will crumble soon however much we may try to praise the cultural capacity and the superiority of Buddhist doctrines. For the future oriented positioning, after we feel the pulse of macroscopic social change and look back over the path of the Korean temple objectively, we have to set up the model of rational management of the temple. The rational management of the temple needs to have a precondition of three elements like transparency, democracy, and social contribution, and on the other hand, it also needs to be approached by establishing a special identity appropriate to the circumstances of the individual temple.