일제강점기 순천 송광사의 교육활동 연구

Abstract

Songgwangsa Temple changed the name of the Gangweon to Bulgyogibanghakrim against modernization and Japanese colonial era in 1917, and it steadily spent people in Japan and central at temple money during the Japanese colonial era period. It established Bomyeong School in 1909 and operated Jeongdong Sasook in 1922. Also, Sunchon Byellyang-myeon Donghwasa Temple, a sbusidiary of Songgwangsa Temple, operated Donghwasa Temple Sasook around 1922. In Beolgyo, Boseonggun, the Songgwangsa temples united to create a dharma propagation center in 1916, and they turned it into a school and opened Songmyeong Sasook, a modern educational institution in 1922. Bomyeong School and Jeongdong Sasook that Songgwangsa Temple established and supported were purely ethnohistorical and operated in cooperation with local community. Also, when the school was closed, it gave all property and facilities to the local community free of charge, which greatly helped the development of local education. Songgwangsa Temple has eliminated illiteracy and cultivated human resources through educational activities. It was an effort to voluntarily protect the Korean people from the Imperial People’s Education of Japan, which continued to Japanese colonial era. They also worked to popularize the Buddha’s teachings and to provide practical relief to the disadvantaged. Through this research, I was able to know an overview of the educational activities of Songgwangsa Temple during the Japanese colonial era. There has been a lack of research on how Bomyeong School and Jeongdong Sasook worked with local communities to conduct educational activities until now. This study can be said to be meaningful in that it looked at the practical case