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Lee Deok-jin (born 1896) was a Buddhist monk during the Japanese colonial period. The Buddhist name was Byeokam.

Life
He was a monk in Cheongamsa Temple in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do. when he went to the temple. is unknown, but in the 1920s, he was staying in Tokyo, Japan as an international student.

He first appeared on the record when he participated as a councilor when the Korean Buddhist Youth Association in Japan was founded in 1922. Since then, he has served as the organization's secretary Lee Jae-bu and secretary of the Ministry of Education, and has also been involved in the publication of "Geumgangjeo," an organ of Korean Confucian monks.

After graduating from the law department of Chuo University in 1928, the track record for about seven years is unknown. In 1935, he reappeared when he was approved by the Japanese Government-General of Korea as the chief monk of Cheongamsa Temple. After completing his first three-year term, he was re-appointed in 1938.

In 1937, when Lee Deok-jin was the headquarters of Cheongamsa Temple, the Sino-Japanese War broke out. At that time, influential figures from the Gyeongbuk region gathered and decided to donate the plane called "Gyeongbukho" to the Japanese military with donations from the residents. Accordingly, major monks of the main temple and Malsa Temple in 5 Bonsan Mountain, Gyeongsangbuk-do, also held a meeting and decided to pay 1,500 won in cooperation with the Gyeongbukho fundraising campaign. Lee Deok-jin also attended the meeting, and showed enthusiasm for actively participating in the airplane tribute movement even though he was not the headquarters.

In 1940, after changing his surname and name to Japanese style in accordance with the name change policy, he was elected as an auditor of the Korean Buddhist Central School and entered the central Buddhist community. In 1943 and 1944, during the Pacific War, Lee Deok-jin published six articles under the name of Chang in "Buddhism", all of which are classified as pro-Japanese epics. The plan calls for promoting the conscription system and compulsory conscription policies or cooperating with the wartime economic system, glorifying the Pacific War as "construction of the Great East Asia."

It was included in the religious section among the list of prospective candidates for the Pro-Japanese Life Dictionary of the Institute for Ethnic Affairs announced in 2008.

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