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It is necessary to have a right understanding of the Choseon Buddhist Chogye order in order to clearly apprehend modern Korean Buddhism. Therefore, to understand the founding process of the Chogye order and its leading parts is an important subject directly connected with the modern Korean history.
This paper is to examine two characters who played significant roles, yet have been ignored, in the Choseon Buddhist Chogye order: Ven. Hanam as a head, and Ven. Jiam who was a general manager of the same order. By exploring their positions and roles in modern Korean history, this study investigates their contributions and characteristics as a
practitioner and person in charge.
Ven. Hanam and Ven. Jiam were the representatives of both practice and management in korean Buddhism under Japanese occupation. They consolidated each other's merits, and saved the Weoljung temple in Odae mountain which was about to be closed. Ven. Jiam, in order to obstruct the Japanese Buddhism in amalgamating the Korean Buddhism, went about the construction of the headquarters of Korean Buddhism in earnest; he achieved the legal reconstruction of the Buddhist order in hundreds years by establishing the Daewoongjun(大雄殿) of the Chogye temple, and founding the Choseon Buddhist Chogye order. The Chogye order allowed only the descendent of Ven. Taego-Bow to be able to assume its head, representing the dharma tradition, and was approved as a legal system of order, which could follow the orthodox lineage of Korean Buddhism under Japanese occupation. Considering the fact that the essence of the Japanese colonial policy was to obliterate the Korean national characteristics, even though it was firmly controlled by the Japanese government-general of Choseon, to reconstruct and preserve the original Buddhist order which was maintaining the Korean Buddhist tradition was itself of deep historical significance.