소태산 박중빈의 재가주의 불교운동과 민족주의

Abstract

This paper is to study about the buddhism movement of secularism by Sotaesan Park Jungbin(1891~1943), who created The Society to Study Buddhism, which performed the accomplishment of practice on the reformism of buddhism in modern time of Korea. Therefore, it is studied that the kernel of ideology on that movement was the buddhism movement of secularism, which also was to strengthen capability of nation through socialization and popularization of buddhism. For this discussion, the writer of this paper analyzed that the theories on the reformism of buddhism in modern time reached the limits in the subject and the direction of reformism. On the contrary, the writer tried to prove that the reformism by Sotaesan was connected with historical consciousness on eschatology of buddhism, and he made practice on the reformism of buddhism through the buddhism movement of secularism. The writer cleared that he had resistant consciousness to resist the power of a foreign country in Sotaesan's consciousness of nationalism through his painful experience at prison, and he made the people of Korea hopeful and had open nationalism against a dual opposition from standpoint of national buddhism. Therefore, the buddhism movement of secularism by Sotaesan was to strengthen capability of nation through socialization and popularization of buddhism, and The Society to Study Buddhism also acted to inspire citizen's consciousness on equality that was the basis of modern nationalism.