만해의 불교근대화운동과 시집 <님의 침묵>의 창작동기

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to make clear the motive of creating Man- Hae’s poetical works 「Nim&ucirc;i ch’immuk」. ManHae is the behaviorist advocating importance of reformation on Korean Buddhism. So, he constantly exerts all possible efforts to modernize Korean Buddhism. For the sake of reforming to our Buddhism, he went to Japan for learning Japan Buddhism, after that, he publish two book -<The theory of Korean Buddhism restoration>, <Buddhist Bible>. For Man-Hae, The movement for modernization of Buddhism means Buddhism Upbringing Society or Movement for popularization of Buddhism. This is the motive of creating Man-hae’s poetical works <Ni- m&ucirc;i ch’immuk>. He perceives the need for renewing from buddhist language to popular language. For renewing from buddhist language to popular language. Man-Hae chooses the exclusive use of hangul by throwing away the fashionable chinese Writing while he wrote sijo and novel. And he actively received fashionable contemporary discussion abut love and romance in his poem. That is to say, Man-Hae has acquired popular language through his poem and received contemporary new cultural trend. So, Man-Hae’s poetical works 「Nim&ucirc;i ch’immuk」can be called the literary crystal of korean modern poetry, produce form the movement for popularization of Buddhism which had been pursued constantly from his early writing.