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This paper is based on the studies of the Buddhist history and its purification movement that happened during 1980～1999. Korean Buddhism faced a major identity crisis by going through the 500 years of Chosun dynasty and the Japanese colonial era, followed to that. The purification movement after the Korean liberation was the effort to restore the true identity of Korean Buddhism. Jogae Order, one of the major religious order in Korea, sailed away in 1962. And it was able to survive through all the above historical hardship to possess a modern institutional order, though accompanied by an external support of the government. The 10.27 Bub-nan, the Buddhist incident that happened in 1980, spurred the Korean Buddhists and lead them to rethink about their historical bases; and the followers started to pay more attention to matters such as democratization of the religious order as well as reorganization of it. The Reformation Committee that sailed away in 1994 brought a democratic improvement to the religious order; and this democratic improvement was especially successful in the matters like its election system of a major position of trust. Also, the 'Gyo-yuok-won', the education center for Buddhist priests and the 'Po-gyo-won',the missionary work center, were established as a separate union, and now its level of position is equal to that of the executive committee. Thus, the above reformations are noticeable achievements for Buddhism education and Buddhist missionary works, and it also accomplished democratization of the religious order of the modern Buddhism in Korea. However, the conflict inside the religious order that happened in 1998～1999 showed the limits of the 1994 reformation committee's institution. In other words, it well showed that the purification movement as well as the reformation of the religious order should be accompanied not only by an institutional improvement but also by a paradigm shift of the members.