Yongsan Buddhism

Yongsan Buddhism.
Receiving approval of the Dharma from the Buddha in samadhi, the Great Monk Jajae Manhyon rose from his seat of a practitioner and made up his mind to propagate the true Dharma of the Buddha across the world. Having renounced a worldly life to become a monk of the Jogye Buddhist Order, awakening his original nature through Hwadu - a head phrase for meditation investigation, the Great Monk established Yongsan Buddhism. This is seen as the correct method of becoming a Buddha based on his experience of receiving empowerment from the Buddha through recitation of Buddha's name and of attaining Buddhahood.

"In order to solve his doubts on the truth of birth and death and on the world after death, he investigated Hwadu, then changed his practice method to recitation, entered samadhi of deep recitation and eventually attained samadhi. He has seen the real character behind the Dharma realm of the universe by entering into a deep samadhi and seeing the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas abiding in the Absolute Realm as well as the existence of Hell, the deva realm and the Westem Paradise."

The Great Monk who not only obtained the answer to his lifetime Hwadu, but has also seen the subtle world of the Absolute Realm over the realm of emptiness through recitation of Buddha's name, has once again realized the limit of enlightenment by one's own efforts. He himself understood a new method of going beyond the limit of the practicing method of Seon Buddhism that has been taking the lead of Buddhism on this land(South Korea) for over 1000 years. His goal is to propagate this new method to all beings he encounters.

"Reciting the sacred name of Sakyamuni Buddha who perfectly possesses not only wisdom, compassion and blessed virtues, but also the Three Bodies of the Dharma, Reward and Transformation Bodies and exercises omnipotent universal ability is the best method guaranteeing rebirth in the heaven of the deva realm and the Western Paradise Pure Land."

The Great Monk established the Yongsan Buddhism Foundation last yeat. He also started to draw up the basic doctrines and code for faith and practice and systemized them.

"Human beings exist in the six realms in life and death. It is true that human beings commit countless karmic sin and exist in the Three Evil Destinies such as Hell, the animal realm, and others. They do not escape from the Three Poisons of greed, anger and ignorance. Yongsan Buddhism has shown how human beings can escape from the Three Poisons through a pure practice method and at the same time save them so that they will not fall down into the Three Evil Destinies."

Further, the important doctrines of the Yongsan Buddhism are to perform one's filial piety to their parents, respect thdir teacher, love their nation and practice loyalty and filial piety as part of their life. As a rootless tree cannot grow on the land, all living beings must observe fundamental manners and repay one's obligations and also have love toward their nation.

Besides these, Yongsan Buddhism stands on the basic doctrines of strictly observing precepts, repenting one's karmic sins in the past and loving our neighbors with endless compassion. The teachings of the Great Monk includes the idea that one must cultivate a pure mind through repentence and become a great liberated man caring for others before yourself.

"We must take refuge in the Buddha and his Dharma. We must also practice the Ten Virtues and actions fof a Bodhisattva completely. We must study the Mahayana Sutras, escape from the cycle of life and death as a recitation practitioner chanting Sakyamuni Buddha and live a life to be rebom in the Western Pure Land. The Western Paradise
Pure Land exists. Hell also exists."

The Grest Monk Jajae Manhyon attaches more importance to practice than speech and exphasizes that studying scriptures steadily together with practice and establishing a systematic knowledge of the realm of the Buddhism has are the fundamentals of practice. In this connection, Yongsan Buddhism has taken the Sutras, like the Agama Sutra, the Ksitigarbha Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Lotus Sutra and the Avatamsaka Sutra as the basic Sutras. Whenever he has an opportunity, he stresses that practioners should not ignore the study of Sutras.

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