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This study is to examine the founding background, management, removal and characteristics of the Odae Mountain Monastery, which was established in the Weoljung temple in Odae Mountain, April of 1956. It was founded to commemorate the Buddhist purification, specifically intending to improve the qualification of the monks.
This monastery was established by the lead of Kim,
Tan-huh, the abbot of Woljung temple, yet with the support of the head office of the order at that time. Starting with about 30 people, the monastery designated the five-year period of education, and mainly taught the Buddhist philosophy.
Its ideology of education was to learn the three subjects. sila, samadhi and prajna, in the background of which lies the modern succession of Ven. Ji-nul's compact of the samadhi and prajna.
The monastery, however, was voluntarily closed in the winter of 1957, due to the repeated conflicts between the Bhikus and monks with wives, and financial difficulties. Kim, tan-huh, who was leading the monastery, moved to Yuong-eun temple in Samchuck, and tried to reconstruct of the monastery he founded the monastery a second time in Young-eun temple.
Since 1959, Kim collected his fellow monks and those who had come to him hearing what he was trying in Young-eun temple, and devoted himself in the education. At that time, the main subject was Hwaum sutra.
In there, the bhikus and bhikunis studied together. The monastery was closed in November of 1962, when Kim came back to Weoljung temple in order to take the abbot.
The Odae Mountain monastery has a meaning of significance in that it was the first educational Buddhist work which the Chogye order made after the purification of Buddhism. The important points are the reflection of purification movement, the basics works for Kim's translation of sutras, and representation of Ven. Ji-nul's compact of samadhi and prajna. Later, the monks who studied at the monastery played important roles in the Chogye order.