@article{oai:kanagawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00008175, author = {曺, 起虎 and Cho, KiHo}, issue = {8}, journal = {年報 非文字資料研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {Korea is a multireligious country where funerals and ancestral rites are not connected with one particular traditional religion. But in Japan such ceremonies involve Buddhist rituals that have not changed during the country’s history. This is a significant difference between the two countries. The most drastic change in ancestral rites on the Korean Peninsula is associated with the concept of death and funerals based on the syncretism of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. To be precise, Buddhism had a great influence on the region up to the Three Kingdoms Period, and Buddhist temples took charge of every aspect of ancestral rites including spirit tablets. Then, during the five hundred years between the end of the Koryo period around the 14th century and the Chosun Dynasty, Confucianism gradually took over the role of Buddhism. After the Taejong Period from 1400 to 1418, people stopped building ancestral halls to place spirit tablets. People who held Confucian funeral ceremonies were severely punished. Around the 18th century, however, the principles of Confucianism became dominant in not only ancestral rites but all aspects of people’s lives. Under Japanese imperialism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were all suppressed, and religious traditions on the peninsula were eliminated. Furthermore, after August 1945, (South) Korea became a multireligious society, and funeral practices and other ancestral rites were no longer bound to any particular religion. Ceremonies, ceremonial behavior, ways of praying for the souls of the departed, and views on gravesites reflect how people from different regions and with different ancestries, educational backgrounds and social status define death and funerals. Examining mourning and funeral rites in the Korea’s multireligious society requires understanding of general ritual processes that people follow. Without doing so, we will not be able to determine the intrinsic significance of funeral rites. Thus, for this paper, field research and interviews with local people regarding the Confucian concept of death and funeral practices observed after the death of the great scholar Park Hyo Soo(1906-1996) were conducted whenever possible., Departmental Bulletin Paper, 論文}, pages = {137--164}, title = {現代韓国における儒教の「死」の意識と葬送儀礼 -朴孝秀巨儒に見る事例を中心として-}, year = {2012} }