Abstract:In 1920, a new Buddhist organization was formed to build a bridge between the Korean and Japanese Buddhist communities in colonial Korea. With support from the colonial government, the Association of Korean Buddhism (Chōsen Bukkyōdan) created a nationwide network, publications, large-scale public events, and missionary initiatives. As this association potentially undermined the established, indigenous leadership of the Korean Buddhist community, Korean Buddhist leaders reacted by making major changes in their own institution. This article reveals that the association, rendered by the historiography of colonial Korean Buddhism as ineffective and irrelevant, served as a major catalyst in the modern transformation of Korean Buddhism.

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谁来代表韩国佛教？1920-1945 年在朝鲜殖民地控制佛教的竞赛

摘要：1920年，新的佛教组织成立，为朝鲜殖民时期的朝鲜和日本佛教界搭建桥梁。在殖民政府的支持下，韩国佛教协会（Chōsen Bukkyōdan）创建了一个全国性的网络、出版物、大型公共活动和传教活动。由于该协会可能会破坏韩国佛教界已建立的本土领导层，韩国佛教领袖的反应是对他们自己的机构进行重大变革。本文揭示，被殖民时期韩国佛教史学所渲染的这种联系是无效和无关紧要的，它是韩国佛教现代转型的主要催化剂。