백용성의 대각교의 근대성에 대한 소고 - 마음[覺]을 중심으로

On the Modernity of Baek Yongseong"s Daegakgyo - Based on its concept of the Mind (覺) -

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper analyzed the meaning of the modernity of Baek Yongseong&quot;s Daegakgyo (Teaching of Great Enlightenment), through his understanding of the Mind. In the context of the &quot;encounter between the traditional and the modern, and the response&quot; during Joseon&quot;s modernization period, Baek&quot;s Daegakgyo has been often evaluated as conservatism that has simply followed the path of Chan Buddhist traditions.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Daegakgyo&quot;s Enlightenment is based on the understanding of the Mind advocated by traditional chan buddhism. But Baek not only asserted his concept of Self- awakening to establish the tradition of Chan Observing the Hwadu. For him, Self-enlightenment was a response to the Christian criticism of Buddhism as a religion of idolatry and tradition, it also held the significance of the Buddhist identity as a modern religion. Awakening others is the ideology that Baek came up with as a rediscovery of the Buddhist tradition of salvation of sentient beings which had been forgotten in the Chan Buddhist tradition, in the face of the socialist anti-religious movement. For Baek, awakening others was the ideology that Buddhism needed to focus on in order to mature into a modern religion.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Baek&quot;s Daegakgyo is a traditional thought that was rediscovered in the course of establishing Buddhism as a modern religion against the criticism of modern Western civilization represented by Christianity and Socialism. Tradition, in this context, does not indicate conflict with modernity, it includes modernity. Thus Baek&quot;s Daegakgyo is not a simple inheritance of Chan tradition, it must be evaluated as a modern product of Joseon modernization process.