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The Soto Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea |
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| Author |
Hur, Nam-lin
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.26 n.1-2 |
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| Date | 1999 |
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| Pages | 107 - 134 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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| Publisher Url |
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Soto sect; imperialism; colonialism; Korea; Takeda Hanshi; kominka movement |
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| Abstract | The Soto sect was actively engaged in Buddhist propagation in colonial
Korea after having succeeded in establishing its first missionary temple in
Pusan in 1905. By the time it withdrew from Korea in 1945, the Soto sect
had secured an extensive propagation network connecting more than one
hundred temples. Despite its successful Buddhist polemics, Soto Buddhist
teachings in Korea were basically political propaganda viable only within
the framework of Japanese colonial imperialism. The Soto sect in colonial
Korea was deeply involved in the cause of Japanese imperialism by carry
ing out three major tasks: Buddhist services for the Japanese military, pro
motion of the “kdminka” (transforming [the colonial peoples] into
imperial subjects) policy, and the pacification of colonial subjects. Not sur
prisingly, none of these goals—which were promoted in the name of Buddhist
compassion and non-selfhood in the tradition of Zen Buddhism—could
survive the collapse of Imperial Japan’s claim to “universal benevolence”
that had been premised on the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 904 |
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| Created date | 1999.07.14
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| Modified date | 2017.08.25 |
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