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Although the appearence of the competence of the order in modern Buddhism resulted from the enactment of the temple law in 1911, the competence at that time was not given to the order but to the government-general of Choseon, who was in charge of personnel and financial affairs. Later the national consciousness developed, and the movement of abolishing the temple law was started the headquarter of the order, the general affairs section was established in 1922 with the participation of about 10 head temples. However, the pro-Japanese abbots separately founded the foundation of instruction section of Choseon Buddhism, combining the general affairs section.
The unification movement of Buddhism had continued despite confronting conflicts Choseon Buddhist Chogye order, the first Buddhist order approved by Japan was established in 1941 the Taego temple law of Choseon Buddhist Chogye order, which granted the headquarter Taego temple the right of personnel and administration, was enacted yet the rights were still not complete due to the requirement of the government-general's approval.
After the liberation of Korea, the constitution for Choseon Buddhism was made, but it only changes some words of the Taego temple law of Choseon Buddhist Chogye order, lacking in transferring the competence of the order. Through the Buddhist cleanup movement, the constitution for Choseon Buddhism amended into the constitution of the Buddhist Chogye order. While the head at that time was a representative of the Chogye order, and named the head of the general affairs section with the decision of the council, the minister of the general affairs section was a representative of the general affairs section, helping the head and managing the works of the order. the Buddhist cleanup movement was finished by constructing the combined order April 11 in 1962. In the combined order, the decision was reached on that bhikus would take the head, and married bhikus take the minister of the general affairs section, making the head-centered system more strong.
The head-centerered system was shifted into the ministercentered system according to the amendment of the 50th regular meeting in 1977. Due to the “Sinheungsa case" in 1983, the extraordinary system of the order was started, and temporarily returned to the head-centerered system which made the representative of the order the head, and made the minister only represent the general affairs section. However, with Seo, Euhyun minister's assuming the office in 1986, it returned to the minister-centered system. In addition, Seo, Euhyun minister who resumed the 26th minister in 1990 gave the strength on the right of appointing abbots in the head temples of the parish, resulting in stronger minister-centered system.
In 1994, Seo, Euhyun minister's system was closed by the reform order, and decentralization of power was introduced the main points were regarding the right of appointing abbots and opening the parish meeting. While the minister had appointed the abbots in the past, it made the decision that the parish meeting could recommend abbots, and it was accepted unless the recommended had any disqualification by the law of the order. The parish meeting was to open in order for the parish to manage in its own out of the control of the center. In modern society, the power which have been focused on the center tend to be decentralized with the democracy and the growth of the civil consciousness it is hard to realize the entirely autonomous parish due to the situation of the Chogye order, but it is needed to follow the direction of the history.