이승만의 불교 효사상에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Buddhist filial piety of Rhee Syngman

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Rhee Syng-man, the founding president, is interpreted in various ways depending on the researcher's position. His whole life is about independence, foundation, and the desire to cultivate democratic soil on this land. Despite such efforts, he is undervalued under the stigma of being a dictator. The evaluation of individual Syngman Rhee and political lines are not topics to be dealt with in this study. It is a filial piety through Rhee's childhood, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which controlled his teens ideologically. This is Syngman Rhee's filial piety through Buddhism, which was intended to be dealt with in this study. However, since his entire life was a journey centered on Christianity, the approach through the main word of Buddhism is now fragmentary.
The relationship with Buddhism (a temple) remembered by Rhee Syng-man is through a fragmentary record that he visited Munsusa Temple in Bukhansan Mountain. It is a temple where I ran errands as a child and begins with longing for my mother. Syngman Rhee's filial piety began with indirect and fragmentary data that began in his retrospective.
Rhee Syng-man lived through a period of growth through Buddhism and Confucianism socially. The abolition of the past system, which was the only means of succession and transfer of life, as was the case with the men of the four universities at the time, will disappear together with the existence of Confucianism as a study. As an alternative, the Joseon government will adopt a bureaucratic appointment system through Western-style educational institutions, including Baejae Hakdang, which was established by missionaries. The abolition of the past system is not simply a change in the method of hiring talent. It was a revolutionary social reform that was linked to the collapse of the status system society that dominated the Joseon Dynasty. The past system did not equal opportunities for everyone. The examination was restricted according to status. However, Western-style educational institutions did not discriminate against admission at all. Western-style educational institutions established by missionaries were adopted as compulsory subjects only as a means to take root in their mission barren land. Rhee Syng-man's admission to the exclusionary school was more adaptable to changes in the social system than his own will. The reason why he believed in Christianity, which he did not believe in while attending school, was when he was sentenced to death in Hansung Prison and waited for execution. It begins with the conviction that he lived thanks to the prayer of the missionary who helped him. After that, Rhee devoted himself to preaching to the people around him. As a result, many people were able to lead to Christianity.
Syngman Rhee's Protestant whole school is not simply about one religious choice. It was a major turnaround that dominated the rest of his life. Rhee leaves memories of his mother, especially in many of his parents. He recalls his mother who prayed before the Buddha for her health during her birth and growth. Rhee Syng-man's filial piety is based on education on filial piety through causal retribution and reincarnation ideas disciplined by his mother in childhood and youth, which account for the first half of his filial piety is based on education. The image of Buddhism from childhood is a part of nostalgia for the mother. The purification of Buddhism during his reign was a pure passion for youth rather than simply a means of eliminating political and engineering opposition. And it was a practice of filial piety to Buddhism.
Rhee Syng-man's filial piety is more than the fear of death, which is approaching every minute, when death is on the verge of death in Hansung Prison. I'm worried about my mother. At the same time, he is relieved that his mother is not alive. It's a paradoxical comfort.