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The Encounter of Buddhism and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Korea

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Mark A. Nathan
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Law is central to an understanding of the development of modern Korean Buddhism. New legal and regulatory structures that were introduced during the first two decades of the twentieth century in Korea significantly impacted the course of modern Korean Buddhist history. The relationship between modern secular laws and Buddhist organizations during this period, however, was forged chiefly in the context of increasing Japanese political control over Korea, especially after the start of direct colonial rule following annexation in 1910. Therefore, the critical legal issues involved in the historical development of early modern Korean Buddhism have typically been subsidiary to the analyses of Japanese colonial policies toward the monastic community. The precise contours of the relationship between Buddhism and law in the modern period remain largely unexplored and thus indistinct because the focus in previous studies has been placed on the confrontation between the sangha and the colonial state.

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 2009 , pp. 1 - 32
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8. The system of “main temples” (Jap., honzan) and “branches” (Jap., matsuji) first developed in Japan during the Heian period (794-1185), but it remained optional and far from universal as an organizational system up through the sixteenth century. In 1632, however, the establishment of formal organizational connections between temples within this “head-branch” framework became mandatory for all temples by order of the government. See McMullin, Neil, Buddhism and the State in Sixteenth-Century Japan, 21, 243–44 (1984)Google Scholar. For more on the changes brought about after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, particularly the way in which branches were given independent status, see generally Eishun, Ikeda, Teaching Assemblies and Lay Societies in the Formation of Modern Sectarian Buddhism, 25 Japanese J. Religious Stud. 11 (1998)Google Scholar.

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10. The Sach 'allyŏng sihaeng kyuch'ik (), Law No. 84, was promulgated on July 8, 1911. It contained additional rules and regulations needed for the implementation of the Temple Ordinance. Both the Temple Ordinance and its enforcement rules took effect on the first of September that same year. The eight articles that comprise this law can be found in Yi, supra note 1, at 251-55.

11. Id. at 251-53.

12. Id. at 252-54.

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14. Id.

15. Kim Sun-sŏk, for example, in a more recent examination of Japanese colonial policies toward the Korean Buddhist community, draws attention to the use of the term akpǒp (pernicious law) by the previous generation of scholars with respect to the Temple Ordinance, and he himself refers to the Temple Ordinance as a pernicious law (akpǒp) on at least one occasion. See Kim Sun-sǒk, supra note 3, at 44, 60.

16. Sǒ, supra note 3, at 125.

17. Chǒng, supra note 3, at 88.

18. Id. at 92.

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20. Id.

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23. Id. at 5.

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27. Id. at 121.

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30. See, e.g., Chǒng, supra note 3, at 85, 88.

31. It is important to bear in mind that colonial policies and laws, especially in the area of civil law, were constantly evolving and often subject to conflicting demands and agendas. As Kyu Hyun Kim remarks:

In many Korean-language works of history, the colonial powers tend to be portrayed as if they always knew exactly what they were doing, were unwavering in their sense of direction, and never suffered from self-contradictions or self-doubts in developing and practicing their ideological programs. It seems likely that the reality was far more complex.

Kim, supra note 21, at 102. Moreover, looking specifically at the legal system, Marie Kim concludes: “The picture of colonial law that emerges is less one of a systematic, collusive machination than one of a volatile, bumpy patchwork.” Kim, Marie Seong-Hak, Law and Custom under the Chosŏn Dynasty and Colonial Korea: A Comparative Perspective, 66 J. Asian Stud. 1067, 1088 (11 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

32. Yi, supra note 1, at 250.

33. The word fukyō was used as early as 1874 in a set of rules for a lay society of the Nichiren sect to mean the propagation or dissemination of the group's teachings, but this was unconnected with overseas missionary efforts, which had not yet commenced. See Ikeda, supra note 8, at 24. Another common word that Japanese Buddhist organizations adopted to describe their missionary efforts was kaikyō (Kor., kaegyo ), meaning “opening the country.” For more on this term and its significance in early-modern Japanese Buddhism, see generally Ketelaar, James E., Kaikyōron, : Buddhism Confronts Modernity, 12 Zen Buddhism Today: annual Report of the Kyoto Zen Symposium 25, 30–35 (03 1996)Google Scholar.

34. The English translation used here is taken from Tikhonov, Vladimir & Miller, Owen, Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to Socialism with a Buddhist Face 74 (Global Oriental 2008)Google Scholar. The original passage can be found in Yongun, Han, Chosǒn Pulgyo yusillon [On the reformation of Korean Buddhism] 33 (Kyǒngsǒng Pulgyo Sǒ'gwan 1913)Google Scholar.

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37. This assertion is based on my dissertation research, which looks at the role that Buddhist propagation has played in twentieth-century Korean Buddhism.

38. For more on the centrality of p'ogyo in Korean Buddhist reform efforts during the colonial period, see Park, Pori, The Modern Remakrng of Korean Buddhism: The Korean Reform Movement During Japanese Colonial Rule and Han Yongun's Buddhism (1879-1944) (1998) (UMI Dissertation Services 2001) (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles) (on file with UCLA)Google Scholar. Park's dissertation was recently published, but I was unable to consult the book in the preparation of this article. Park, Pori, Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Japanese Colonial Rule (Inst. E. Asian Studies 2009)Google Scholar. See also Park, Pori, Korean Buddhist Reforms and Problems in the Adoption of Modernity during the Colonial Period, 45 Korea J. 87 (Spring 2005)Google Scholar [hereinafter, Park, Korean Buddhist Reforms].

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40. See Sa, Chogyejong: Kǔn Hyǒndae P'yǒn [History of the Chogye Order: Early-Modern and Modern] 35 (Taehan Pulgyo Chogyejong Kyoyug'wŏn 2001) (Korean)Google Scholar. For more information on the marginalization of Buddhism during the Choson dynasty and what looks to be an amelioration of the conditions faced by the monastic community in the late nineteenth century, see generally Lancaster, Lewis, The Buddhist Tradition in Late Chosŏn: A Reappraisal, 1 Rev. of Korean Stud. 111 (1998)Google Scholar; Cho, Eunsu, Re-Thinking Late 19th Century Chosŏn Buddhist Society, 6 Acta Koreana 87 (07 2003)Google Scholar.

41. The regulations consisted of thirty-six articles in all, a copy of which can be found in Hanguk Pulgyo ch'oegŭn paengnyǒn sa p'yǒnnyǒn [A Chronicle of the History of the most recent one hundred years of Korean Buddhism] 431–37 (Kwangho, Chŏng ed., 1999) (the regulations were composed in classical Chinese)Google Scholar. For a detailed discussion of the contents of this law in Korean, see Chogyejong Sa, supra note 40, at 39; Kim Sun-sǒk, supra note 3, at 29.

42. Here p'ogyo is paired not with chŏnbŏp (), meaning Dharma transmission, as was the case in the Temple Ordinance, but rather with chŏndo (), which is a term that was used to describe missionary work and is used today almost exclusively in connection with Protestant proselytizing in Korea.

43. Chogyejong Sa, supra note 40, at 35.

44. Id. at 38.

45. Id. at 39.

46. See Auerback, Micah L., Japanese Buddhism in an Age of Empire: Mission and Reform in Colonial Korea, 1877-1931, at 207–08 (09 2007) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University) (on file with Princeton University)Google Scholar.

47. Law No. 45 was promulgated on November 17, 1906, and went into effect on the first of December that year. See Kyŏng-Jip, Kim, Han'guk kǔndae Pulgyosa [A History of Early-Modern Buddhism in Korea] 239 (Kyŏngsŏwǒn 1998)Google Scholar (contains a copy of the law, translated into Korean, followed by a discussion of its contents). The word fukyō/p 'ogyo () does not appear in the title of this law; rather, a synonym, senpu/sŏnp 'o (), typically translated as promulgation, is used to indicate the type of religious activity covered under the law. In the main body of the law, however, the former term is used, rather than the latter, to designate the activities, spaces, and religious vocation (viz., propagator) being regulated. The word sempu was famously used in the Meiji government's efforts to inculcate among the Japanese people certain moral values and state-sanctioned doctrines that were derived mainly from a reconfigured Shinto worldview. For more on the Great Promulgation Campaign (taikyō senpu undō), which lasted from 1870 to 1884, see Hardacre, Helen, Shintō and the State, 1868-1988, at 42–43 (Princeton Univ. Press 1989)Google Scholar.

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49. Id.

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52. The emphasis on the impact of Article 4 on Korean monasteries and temples goes all the way back to Takahashi Tōrn, writing in the late 1920s, in his recounting of the events of the first decade of the twentieth century. See Tōru, Takahashi, Richō Bukkyō 918 (Kukhak Charyowŏn 1980) (1929) (Japanese)Google Scholar.

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54. Law No. 83 was promulgated on August 16, 1915. It consisted of nineteen articles. A copy of the entire law is included in Yi, supra note 1, at 300-06. An English translation of the law was provided in one of the missionary magazines of the time. See Chosen Government-General Ordinance No. 83, 1 The Korea Magazine 350–54 (08 1917)Google Scholar. For an analysis of this law and comparisons with the 1906 Religious Promulgation Regulations, see Kim Sun-sŏk, supra note 3, at 63. See also Sǒn-ja, Yun, 1915-nyŏn <P'ogyo kyuch'ik> kongp'o ihu chonggyo kigwan sŏllip hyŏnhaeng [The situation of establishing religious facilities after the promulgation of the 1915 law “Propagation Regulations”], 8 Han'guk Kidokkyo wa Yǒksa [Korean Christianity and History] 111 (1998) kongp'o ihu chonggyo kigwan sŏllip hyŏnhaeng [The situation of establishing religious facilities after the promulgation of the 1915 law “Propagation Regulations”]' href=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=1915-ny%C5%8Fn+%3CP'ogyo+kyuch'ik%3E+kongp'o+ihu+chonggyo+kigwan+s%C5%8Fllip+hy%C5%8Fnhaeng+%5BThe+situation+of+establishing+religious+facilities+after+the+promulgation+of+the+1915+law+%E2%80%9CPropagation+Regulations%E2%80%9D%5D&author=S%C7%92n-ja+Yun&publication+year=1998&journal=Han'guk+Kidokkyo+wa+Y%C7%92ksa+%5BKorean+Christianity+and+History%5D&volume=8>Google Scholar.

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56. Id. at 302, 306.

57. Id. at 302, 305.

58. The law was amended in connection with the general relaxing of some cultural constraints in the wake of the March First Movement in 1919, a time when Koreans from all walks of life peacefully protested colonial rule and called for independence. A summary of other amendments to this law and changes to other laws affecting religions around this time can be found in Kim, supra note 47, at 321-22.

59. Another law not yet mentioned lends further weight to this argument. The Shrine and Temple Regulations (Jap., Jinja jiin kisoku ), which were established in 1915 and pertained only to Japanese Shintō shrines and Buddhist temples, appear to contain nearly identical language as the previously discussed Article 2 of the Temple Ordinance, limiting the range of lawful activities that could take place at those sites to only a few categories of supposedly legitimate religious practices, and that included propagation. See Han, supra note 3, at 99.

60. It is important to remember—precisely because it is so easy to forget—that the word “religion” () was a relatively new conceptual construct. This neologism was first coined in Japan and then spread to the rest of Asia. It appears to have been used in Korea for the first time in 1883 in an article published in a late-Chosŏn government publication, Hansŏng sunbo. See Sǒngman, Chang, Kaehanggi Han'guk sahoe ŭi ‘chonggyo’ kaenyǒm e kwanhan yǒn'gu [A study on the concept of “religion” in Korean society during the open ports period] 40–41 (1992) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Seoul National University) (on file with Seoul National University)Google Scholar. For an insightful and linguistically exhaustive comparison of this term to corresponding words used in early medieval China, and thus by extension the rest of Asia, see Robert Ford Company, On the Very Idea of Religions (in the Modern West and in Early Medieval China), 42 History of Religions 287 (05 2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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62. See infra pp. 120-23 (concerning the treatment of religion in the treaties that Korea signed with Western nations in the 1880s).

63. By the end of 1897, there were nine separate missions representing four different denominations, Baptist, Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian, working to propagate Christianity in Korea. See Paik, L. George, The History of Protestant Missions in Korea, 1832-1910, at 198 (2nd ed., Yonsei Univ. Press 1971) (1927)Google Scholar.

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66. Id. at 181-84.

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71. The relevant language was contained in Article 4 of each treaty and stated: “They [foreign nationals] shall be allowed the free exercise of their religion.” See Korean Treaties, supra note 69, at 110, 136.

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76. See Korean Treaties, supra note 69, at 206. Although nothing in the treaty provisions pertained to religion, presumably because Korean law did not proscribe the practice of Buddhism in the same way as Christianity, representatives of Japanese Buddhist organizations were apparently not prohibited from propagating their religion.

77. The Treaty of Kanghwa did not mention freedom of movement, but the Supplementary Treaty and Trade Regulations between Korea and Japan, signed on August 24, 1876, specified (Article 4) the limits within which Japanese subjects could freely move. See Korean Treaties, supra note 69, at 210.

78. For background information on Okumura and a description of the circumstances under which he was sent to Korea, see Auerback, supra note 46, at 68-71.

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82. Id. at 13.

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87. Yi Nŭng-hwa described the circumstances under which the ban was lifted and recorded what purports to be an eyewitness account of reactions to a religious event held the following year in Seoul to commemorate it, which was attended by both Japanese Buddhist clergy and Korean Buddhist monks. See Yi, supra note 1, at 75-76. A discussion of Yi's account, including translations of some relevant passages into English, can be found in two places: see Auerback, supra note 46, at 149; Cho, supra note 40, at 90-91.

88. The text of the memorial can be found in Takahashi, supra note 52, at 894-96. For background information on Sano, see Auerback, supra note 46, at 146-49.

89. See Yi, supra note 1, at 75. An earlier proposal for lifting the ban, which preceded Sano's arrival in Korea, had been raised in December of the previous year during the first round of Kabo reforms, but the matter was dropped before any action was taken. See Auerback, supra note 46, at 148-49; Chogyejong Sa, supra note 40, at 27-28 (Korean).

90. For Sano's arguments concerning p 'ogyo and its relationship to the freedom of religion (), see Takahashi, supra note 52, at 895-96.

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93. Id. at 157.

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