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| Abstract |

Toeong Sungchol’s Buddhist Studies System

and Its Features

Cho, Byung-hwal
Director of Buddhist Institute of Sungchol Thought

Toeong Sungchol, one of the representative practitioners

of modern Buddhism in Korea, is a monk who first gained
enlightenment and then examined sutra and śāstra and

established his own Buddhist Studies System. So, the Buddhist
Studies System of Toeong is organized around three things:

what is enlightenment(=what should be enlightened), how can

anyone realize it, and how to realize it. It is not a system
established from an academic perspective or to establish a sect
or order, but it is characterized by establishing a Buddhist

view focusing on topics directly related to performance and

awakening from the perspective of the performer. Toeong’s
works written in this system are largely classified into three
categories. The first is a book called ‘Choose Profound Reason’

that decides the right perspective and deep principle[抉擇深理].

One of the representative examples is Sermon of One Hundred