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to the assembled monks and nuns together with laity for two
to three hours in every morning. His sermons went on for

almost a hundred days. These dharma talks were recorded
and later in 1992 published as a book entitled ‘Sermon of One

Hundred Days’.
In this book, he clarified that the theory of the Middle Path

could be the core of Buddhism, and he tried to explain all
Buddhist philosophy and doctrinal history in light of the Middle

Path. For him Middle Path cannot be explained through words
and letters. It can only be awakened through the practice of

meditation and be fully experienced only through our mind. In
this paper, I am going to deal with Master Seongcheol’s idea of

Middle Path in relation to justify the popular position of Korean
Buddhism that the historical Buddha is responsible for the

Mahāyāna Buddhist Canon as well.

Key words
Awakening, Sermon of One Hundred Days, Middle Path, Early Buddhist

texts, Mahāyāna Buddhist Canon

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