Abstract:What would be the attraction of religion in modern times? And how do religious practitioners come to encounter the religious dimensions of their existence? This article examines Kyŏnghŏ Sŏngu’s Buddhism with a focus on his struggle to define human existential reality. I will examine his life story and identify the nature of the religiosity of Kyŏnghŏ’s Buddhism and consider the meaning of religious practice in our time. By doing so, I propose to reconsider the beginning of modern Korean Buddhism. The beginning of modern Korean Buddhism should not be understood as the founding or revival of a certain sectarian identity of Korean Buddhism. Instead, through thematic approaches to what Kyŏnghŏ’s life and Buddhism meant in terms of religious practice and how this religious practice was related to other Buddhist movements of the time, I propose to understand modern Korean Buddhism through the religious and socio-historical reality of modern Korea.

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Kyŏnghŏ Sŏngu 与现代韩国佛教的存在维度

摘要：宗教在现代的魅力何在？宗教从业者如何遇到他们存在的宗教层面？本文考察了 Kyŏnghŏ Sŏngu 的佛教，重点关注他定义人类存在现实的斗争。我将研究他的生平，确定 Kyŏnghŏ 佛教的宗教性质，并考虑我们这个时代宗教实践的意义。通过这样做，我建议重新考虑现代韩国佛教的起源。现代韩国佛教的开始不应被理解为韩国佛教某种宗派身份的建立或复兴。相反，通过主题方法探讨 Kyŏnghŏ 的生活和佛教在宗教实践方面的意义以及这种宗教实践与当时其他佛教运动的关系，