Taeryun
From Database of Modern East Asian Buddhism
Taeryun 大輪 (1884-1979) was the founder of the Taego Chong ( Taego order) of Korean Buddhism.
He was ordained in 1898 at the age of 15. He finished his Buddhist seminary studies in 1908 when he then left for Seoul. In 1915 he established a branch of Yujǒmsa in Pyongyang where he participated in anti-Japanese and Buddhist reformation movements following Han Yongun.
By the 1950s he served as chairman of board of trustees to Tongguk University and chief of the general affairs bureau of the Chongye Chong. The issue of clerical marriage caused him to leave the order in 1960 to establish the Taego Chong of married monks in 1969.
Some taken from Princeton dictionary of Buddhism p 887.
