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Kwon Sang-ro (28 February 1879 – 19 April 1965) was a Buddhist monk during the Japanese colonial period. After the change of name, it was called Ando Shoro. The buddhist name was Toegyeong, and the pen name was Toegyeongdang.

Life
Born in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the son of Kwon Chan-young, he studied Chinese literature, and become a Buddhist monk at Kimryongsa Temple in 1896, when he was 18 years old. He was famous as a writer and was a famous scholar in the Buddhist world even though he had no clear academic background as a martial arts scholar.

After Japanese colonial era, Joseon Buddhism and monks' treatment improved, and relatively favorable policies came out, such as lifting the policy of prohibiting entry to the capital city. The Buddhist community wrote a number of pro-Japanese documents praising the policies of Japan and the Japanese Government-General of Joseon.

Kwon Sang-ro has been pro-Japanese since the signing of the annexation treaty between Korea and Japan, including pro-Japanese editorials in the Joseon Buddhist Monthly Report and Buddhism.

Since then, he has actively cooperated in the war through explicit pro-Japanese activities through lectures and contributions during the Pacific War, when he was a professor at the Central Buddhist School. For example, in the "Buddhist Volunteer" (1940), he stressed that young monks should participate as volunteers during the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, and published a book called "Joseon Buddhism in Imjeon" (1943), a collective character of pro-Japanese logic that war victory is holy fire. In 1940, he served as a member of the National Federation of Korean Industries.

After Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, he served as the first president of Dongguk University in 1953, and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1962.

The list of 708 pro-Japanese groups announced by the National Spirit-setting National Assembly in 2002, the list of prospective pro-Japanese dictionaries compiled by the Institute for National Studies in 2008, and the 705 pro-Japanese anti-national activities announced by the committee in 2009.

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 * Dongguk University