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Zen master Yong-Sung was born in the changing period when the Chosun Dynasty was about to collapse and the western thought and culture pushed into Korea. Yong-Sung declared the Seon sector, but insisted an integrating direction to embrace both sutras and vinaya. After the Japanese colonialism began, he dedicated to Korea's independence and protecting the national identity as Korean Buddhism. After 3.1 Movement, he made a firm vow to translate Buddhist chinese sutras into Korean language, making the big start of sutra translation. Like his life itself, Yong-Sung's Seon was not only for his individual enlightenment, but also the Seon which becomes one with labor, and the Bodhisattva's practice of saving the beings. He published the first Korean version of Sutra of the Net of Brahman. Yong-Sung's Vinaya is an integrative practice of meditation and vinaya, becomes one with the Mahayana Bodhisattva's power of vow, and independent Korean vinaya which is different from the Chinese one and is rooted on the Korean traditional succession of vinaya. Now we need to succeed Yong-Sung with refreshed beliefs, give insights to the Korean people leading with the Mahayana Bodhisattva's vinaya, and provide new hope to the Korean history.