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Kang Dae-ryeon (1875–1942) was a Korean Buddhist monk. The pen name is Geumhoe. The hometown was in Jinju.

Life
Born in Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, he became a Buddhist monk at the age of 14.

After graduating from Myeongjin School in 1905, Lee Hoi-gwang became the chief of Yongjusa Temple in Suwon in 1911, after serving as the secretary general of Wonjong Jongmuwon, where he was the final administrator. In 1915, he became the first chairman of the Samsibonsan Union Office and emerged as a powerful Buddhist figure, and he appointed the chairman and Sang Chi-won (commissioner of Commerce) several times. The Buddhist Central School he founded later developed into Dongguk University, a representative historical school in the Buddhist world.

Kang Dae-ryeon was a monk with a strong pro-Japanese tendency. Immediately after the March 1 Independence Movement in 1919, the Joseon Buddhist Organization Expansion Statement, which was submitted to Japan as the chairman of the Samsibonsan Joint Office, included opinions that marrying Korean, Japanese royal and noble women to monks from other countries would help the two countries harmonize. There was a lot of backlash within the Buddhist community because of this opinion piece, There was a movement to publicly denounce and oust Kang Dae-ryeon, and after the case of ousting Myeonggo, the ringleaders were even sentenced to prison.

However, Kang Dae-ryeon was proud of the expulsion of Myeonggo by nationalist forces and named himself Myeonggo Sanin. Kang Shin-chang, a Buddhist reformist, openly called Kang Dae-ryeon the "great devil of the Joseon Buddhist community."

Until his death, he served as the chief monk of Yongjusa Temple and showed a close relationship with the Governor-General of Joseon, and he was at odds with another pro-Japanese monk Lee Hoe-gwang over the right to teach. In his later years, when the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War broke out, he held a legal ceremony for the Japanese army and donated a large amount of defense donations.

It was included in the Buddhist section of the list of prospective pro-Japanese biographies released by the Institute for National Affairs in 2008, and also in the list of 195 pro-Japanese anti-ethnic acts announced by the Korean Committee on Pro-Japanese Anti-ethnic Acts in 2007.

Evaluation
It was criticized as "the great devil of the Joseon Buddhism world" or "the devil who deceives government offices and apprentices and seeks only private interests."

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 * Yongjusa
 * Samsib bonsan Joint Office