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The special feature of doctritional aspect in Korean Buddhism is as follows. The doctrine of Korean Buddhism set Tathagatagarbha as its basic philosophy. And then it is called as Tathagatagarbha causation when the aforementioned basic philosophy happen to take action with respect to the change of times. Korean Buddhism deeply appreciates the fundamental enlightenment of Buddha, and also it never happens to have a biased view over a certain sect. Therefore, Korean Buddhism could be mentioned as a synthetic buddhism, or a flexible buddhism, or an accommodating buddhism. As a result from taking its practical way of social action, Korean Buddhism became a defense buddhism of the country.
The practice aspect of Korean Buddhism is mainly focused on Hwadu Seon. It is, however, thought to be a right training way that accommodates various training techniques in Korean Buddhism. About religious ceremony aspect, Korean Buddhism admits the ceremony of Pure Land buddhism sect, synthetic with that of Tantrc buddhism sec rather than the ceremony of Zen sect tradition.
The cultural feature of Korean Buddhism is that it inherits the nations traditional culture naturally and it also looks after natural environments very well around Korean buddhist temples.
The identity of Korean Buddhism is considered as an unified buddhism, a harmonized buddhism, a synthetic buddhism. For an achievement of buddha's enlightenment, Korean Buddhism has not been insisting on only one fixed way of training methodology but has been showing open-mind attitude that admit the various ways of training techniques with respect to each trainees potential ability. This is the flexibility as well as the advantage of Korean Buddhism. Now a days there exist so many kinds of religion in Korean society, however, it could be also the special feature of Korean Buddhism that maintains a peace between various religions without religious disputes and conflicts.