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Buddhism, a religion that is from India, has spread to a fairly broad scope, including Korea. Buddhism has undergone a major transformation in many ways, due to the various cultural elements it encountered in China and Central Asia during its spread process. The traces of this transformation can also be seen in Korea. Indeed, Buddhism has not only been a system of faith in Korea, it has also played an active role in the country’s politics. Buddhism was recognized as the official religion of Korea during the Three Kingdom period andined this status for a thousand years until the fall of Goryeo. During this millennium process, Buddhism, along with some of the new features it acquired, incorporated its Korean cultural heritage and created a unique synthesis. It is possible to see a concrete example of the change that Buddhism is exposed to in Korea in religious ceremonies. Indeed, Buddhist rituals in Korea have been integrated with spiritual music. In the early Buddhist tradition, the rituals had different approaches to the place of music, but the sacred texts were read melodically. The fact that the words of the Buddha, despite all their lengths, have been successfully preserved and remembered by the Buddhists for centuries, is due to the read of these texts in a loud and melodic way. During the Joseon period, Buddhism lost its sovereignty as an official religion. But thanks to spiritual music, which was developed and performed by Buddhist priests over the past centuries and which was expensive to the widespread crowds, Buddhism continued to preserve its place among men. This music has also influenced Korean folk music. The aim of this study is to address the roots of Korean Buddhist music and to reveal the unseen aspects of this music in other countries with Buddhist population. The article discusses how Korean religious music has evolved in the process from the periods of Koguryo, Bekje, Silla and Goryeo, where Buddhism was adopted in the country and became a settled belief, to the period of Joseon, where the political influence of Buddhism began to decrease.

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