Query: korean buddhism

title: Re purposing the Portrayal of Eminent Monks in Memorial Steles: Strategies of Identity Legitimation in 17th Century Korean Buddhism

title: Rituals for Rain in the Korean Buddhism

title: Colligated the Study on the History of Korean Buddhism

title: Strategies and Activities for the Globalization of Korean Buddhism

title: Syncretism of Korean Buddhism and Folk Beliefs

title: Who Gets to Represent Korean Buddhism? The Contest to Control Buddhism in Colonial Korea, 1920 1945
abstract: In 1920, a new Buddhist organization was formed to build a bridge between the Korean and Japanese Buddhist communities in colonial Korea. With support from the colonial government, the Association of Korean Buddhism (Chosen Bukkyodan) created a nationwide network, publications, large scale public events, and missionary initiatives. As this association potentially undermined the established, indigenous leadership of the Korean Buddhist community, Korean Buddhist leaders reacted by making major changes in their own institution. This article reveals that the association, rendered by the historiography of colonial Korean Buddhism as ineffective and irrelevant, served as a major catalyst in the modern transformation of Korean Buddhism.

title: The Real Face of Korean Buddhism under Japanese Colonial Rule
abstract: This study analyzes historical documents to assess the influence of the Government General on Korean Buddhism under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945. Although the Government General had the authority to appoint and dismiss head monks, internal records show that when head monks were elected in conflict free towns and provinces, the Government General did not actively intervene in the election process. Despite the widespread belief that the Government General actively supported married monks, its leaders actually criticized their marital status. They approved the appointments of married head monks in response to the increasing demands of Korean Buddhist society, demands for amendments to temple regulations the Government General had no choice but to accept as the number of married monks grew. The Government General attempted to create the Temple Public Asset Foundation whereby any temple owned assets, such as temple buildings and forests, would be transferred to the Foundation for partial management. However, a lack of cooperation among the Buddhist leaders derailed this plan. The Government General exercised comparatively weak control over Korean Buddhism until World War II and, despite Japanese rule, Korean Buddhism managed to pursue a relatively autonomous development.

title: Kyongho Songu and the Existential Dimensions of Modern Korean Buddhism
abstract: What would be the attraction of religion in modern times? And how do religious practitioners come to encounter the religious dimensions of their existence? This article examines Kyongho Songu's Buddhism with a focus on his struggle to define human existential reality. I will examine his life story and identify the nature of the religiosity of Kyongho's Buddhism and consider the meaning of religious practice in our time. By doing so, I propose to reconsider the beginning of modern Korean Buddhism. The beginning of modern Korean Buddhism should not be understood as the founding or revival of a certain sectarian identity of Korean Buddhism. Instead, through thematic approaches to what Kyongho's life and Buddhism meant in terms of religious practice and how this religious practice was related to other Buddhist movements of the time, I propose to understand modern Korean Buddhism through the religious and socio historical reality of modern Korea.

title: Some Contemporary Dilemmas of Korean Buddhism: A Critical Review of the Jogye Order's 2018 Periodic Report
abstract: According to the Jogye Order's 2018 periodic report, the average age of monks is increasing and the number of monks is decreasing. In order to offer solutions to these problems, the report presents and analyzes by dividing those themes into six sub topics, namely: decrease of births; decrease of postulants; aging of postulants; rapidly changing educational environment; teaching aptitude of educators; education budget. The report lists a variety of information derived from the raw data and offers suggestions regarding these six topics. However, the report has several failings, as the research misunderstands the data at times, and their report does not present proper interpretations and concrete solutions. The final suggestions that the report proposes to increase the number of monks seem to be misguided and ineffective. This article critically scrutinizes the Jogye Order's latest report to identify and correct some data misinterpretations and offer new insights that the authors believe would help our leaders come up with better solutions.

title: Syncretism of Korean Buddhism and Folk Beliefs