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Constructing the Half Centennial Memorial Hall, the Shrine of Eternal Commemoration and the Sacred Tower Dedicated to Head Master Chongsan In October Won Buddhist year 56 (1971), prior to the Half Centennial
Commemoration Conference, the Half Centennial Memorial Hall was completed.
The
Memorial Hall was equipped with the grand-sized Il-Won-Sang mounted on the front wall.
A few rooms on the ground floor and the third floor were to be used for the
order’s major events; the rooms were used as the offices for different departments. Furthermore, the Shrine of Eternal Commemoration was also completed around this time.
It had been 22 years since it was decreed by the Won-Buddhist Constitution.
The Shrine of Eternal Commemoration, whose cornerstone had been laid below the pine forest in Yeongmo-Won (Won-Buddhism Memorial Park), had its memorial tablets positioned according to the specifications in the new Book of Ceremonial.
In the main
section, the tablet commemorating Sotaesan was placed in the center of the top shelf and the tablet memorializing the spirits of those who had attained the title of Jong-Sa (Head Master, recipients of the status of beyond the household or higher in dharma rank, or those who had been the Head Dharma Master) was positioned in the center of the middle shelf.
Placed directly to the left of the Jong-Sa tablet was the tablet
representing the spirits of those who had attained the title of Dae-Bong-Do (recipients of a dharma merit granted to ordained disciples) and directly to the right, the tablet memorializing the spirits of those had received the title of Dae-Ho-Bup (recipients of a dharma merit granted to non-clerical believers). To the left of the Dae-Bong-Do tablet, the tablet representing the spirits of Jeonmu-Chulshin (ordained disciples) of all classes and that memorializing the spirits of regular ordained disciples were placed. To the right of the Dae-Ho-Bup tablet, the tablet commemorating the spirits of Keojin-Chuljin
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