Korea Journal
- P-ISSN0023-3900
- E-ISSN2733-9343
- A&HCI, SCOPUS, KCI
Social Stigmas of Buddhist Monastics and the Lack of Lay Buddhist Leadership in Colonial Korea (1910–1945)
Abstract
One of the key characteristics of Buddhism from the late nineteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century was the rise of lay leadership. East Asian Buddhism was no exception, but the ways, degree, and timing in which this modern phenomenon manifested itself varied, especially in the case of Korean Buddhism, which saw a delayed arrival of lay leadership. This article addresses the question of why lay Buddhism struggled to emerge as a strong force in colonial Korea. A key factor that has been underestimated in scholarship is that Korean monks were socially stigmatized during the Joseon period (1392–1910). The rhetoric of stigmatism was so ubi-quitous in journals and newspapers in colonial Korea that it begs a closer analysis of the correlation between the societal perception of monks and its influence on the development of lay Buddhism. This article first examines three interrelated aspects of Korean monastics: (1) the stigmatization imposed on monastics during the Neo-Confucian Joseon dynasty, (2) the persistence of these stigmas in the minds of Koreans, and (3) their internalization among Korean monastics themselves. The article then draws out the impact of these three aspects on the late and limited emergence of lay leadership.
- keywords
- lay Buddhism, Joseon Buddhism, stigmas, modernity, colonial period, clerical marriage
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Bulgyo (Buddhism), 1924–1933
Bulgyo Sibo (Buddhist Times), 1935–1945
Chosen bukkyo (Joseon Buddhism), 1924–1945
Chugai Nippo, 1897–present
Dong-A Ilbo, 1920–present
Dongnip Sinmun, 1896–1899
Dongnip Sinmun (Shanghai edition), 1919–1924
Hanseikai zasshi (Magazine of the Self-Examination Society), 1887–1892
Joseon bulgyo chongbo (Joseon Buddhist Reports), 1917–1920
Joseon bulygo jinheunghoe wolbo (Monthly of the Joseon Association for the Promotion of Buddhism), 1915
Maeil Sinbo, 1910–1938
Meikyo shinshi (New Magazine of Bright Teachings), 1874–1901
Shin bukkyo (New Buddhism), 1901–1915
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