결사, 은둔, 그리고 출가의 문제

Abstract

I published a book titled The Society: Struggle of the Modern Buddhism by compiling my own research of society which extend over the last quarter of a century. After that, I held a book conference. The book review critics expressed their professional criticisms and the audience enquired various questions. Through this conference, I realized the need to raise the question "What is society?" again. Since that if the comprehension toward society's definition had existed, arising suspicions would have be resolved in advance. This is why I realized the need to look over Bojo Chinul's Junghaegyŏlsa(Samadhi and Prajna Community) again who provided me the milestone in looking at society. Of course, an article about Junghaegyŏlsa is included in The Society: Struggle of the Modern Buddhism. It is focused on magnifying Junghaegyŏlsa as the society on the ethical level. However, I tried to clarify that Bojo Chinul's Junghaegyŏlsa is seclusion in order to answer to the criticism toward his viewpoint by analyzing both introduction and conclusion of Junghaegyulsamun (The Compact of the Samadhi and Prajna Community). In addition, I provided the explanation that not only spatial dimension of seclusion but also post- authoritative seclusion exist in seclusion by making comparisons with Pi Eun(seclusion;避隱) of Samgukyusa. Eventually, when comprehending that society is seclusion and post-authority, the fact that it was a movement which tried to recover the renunciation spirit shown by Gautama Buddha was once again clarified.