학월 경산과 총무원장 중심제

Abstract

Hagwol Gyeongsan(鶴月京山) was elected to the executive director of administration(總務院長) four times. He advocated the central system of a executive director of administration, in which a executive director of administration is responsible for and runs the affairs of the Order. However, at that time, because it was the central system of a supreme patriarch(宗正), Gyeongsan executive director of administration was in conflict with supreme patriarchs such as Cheongdam(靑潭), Goam(古庵), and Seoong(西翁). This paper analyzes the process and causes of conflict between the Gyeongsan executive director of administration and the supreme patriarchs. There is a common cause for the confrontation between the two. The first is the political structure. Under the central system of a supreme patriarch, the political structure that grants the executive director of administration the authority of the Order and keeps the supreme patriarch as a symbolic existence was bound to cause confrontation between the two. The second is the Buddhist clans(門中). At that time, neither the supreme patriarch nor the executive director of administration had to be governed by the power of the Buddhist clans. Behind the conflict between supreme patriarch and executive director of administration, there was the power of Buddhist clans to use their authority. The third is a backbite and an anonymous notice. The modern history of the Jogye Order was bruised and wounded due to a backbite and an anonymous notice. At that time, even in the confrontation between the executive director of administration and the supreme patriarch, a backbite and an anonymous notice appeared, acting as a factor in the conflict.