한국 근현대신문에 나타난 불교의례 연구

Abstract

The object of this study is to understand cultural diversity in Modern Buddhism through the articles about the Buddhist rituals in modern society newspapers. Modern society Buddhist has made various efforts to modernize Buddhism. First of all, they organized Gyul-sa(belief association) to restore the Buddhist tradition, on the other hand they tried harder to realize popular propagation. It was part of a effort to formed Buddhist organization, and a build a urban temples. The most important thing among them was that reformation of Buddhist rituals. Buddhist reformers criticize sharply the traditional rituals, and advocate ritual reform that fits in the new times. Meanwhile, research in Buddhist reform has come a long way, but there’s very little study about the effect on Buddhism. A strong insistence of Buddhist reform was started to critical consciousness, most of temples still keep up the traditional rituals. Because rituals were important measures to fund, there was no reason for substitute for new way. Buddhist reformer and newspapers criticize rituals the biggest obstacle to Modern Buddhism, but most temples still encourage a private praying rituals On closer examination the theory of ritual abolitionism and publishing ritual books, modern newspapers articles, Buddhist rituals played important rolls in inheritance of the traditional culture and popularization of Buddhism. Although some of these rituals taken to political purpose, it was contributed to popularizing Modern Buddhism and to preserve the value of the traditional culture.