Rhetoric of Spiritual Awakening: Aesthetic Consciousness in Buddhistic Literature of Goryeo Dynasty

Joosik Min

The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art

Abbr : JASA
2007, 25(), pp.171-193
Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
Research Area : Other Arts and Kinesiology

Joosik Min ¹

¹영남대학교

ABSTRACT

Rhetoric of Spiritual Awakening : Aesthetic Consciousness in Buddhistic Literature of Goryeo Dynasty Joo-Sik Min* This paper aims to illuminate the aesthetic consciousness in the poetic literature of Buddhistic priests of Goryeo dynasty. Buddhism was the state religion in Goryeo dynasty, and so there were a lot of priests. Almost of them were birth of intellectual class and had intimate contact with the first rank scholars of that period. Priests of high virtue had written metaphysical poetry, which expressed artistic fragrance with metaphor and symbol. In the middle of Goryeo dynasty, Jinul had brought a greate conversion in the history of ideas through integrating the Seon(禪 or dhyana) philosophy and investigating deeply the problems such as human existence, life and death, and cosmos and nature. This spiritual abundance spread to the realm of arts, and Seon poetry made a sudden rise. The poetry of Seon Buddhism was not different from the customary poetry merely in literary form, but had many differences in expression. At a glance, it seems to be difficult. It may be that the difficulty is the peculiarity of the Buddhistic poetry. Seon priests pursued the unification of mind and body through meditation, and proceeded to awakening. Their poetry was in need of peculiar style in presentation in order to show the ideal world view. The mind of priests was based in the world of religious meditation and spiritual enlightenment. It originated from the attitude to drive a question and to negate conventional value around the secular affairs. It often drew the new invention to change and renovate the common average sense of value, and presented new ways of seeing, thinking and living in poetry. We could feel the specific vitality or taste in that poetry. The expression was indebted to the specific rhetoric of Seon Buddhism.
KEYWORDS

Aesthetic Consciousness, Awakening, Buddhism, Inadvertence, Literature, Rhetoric, Uncommonness, Unconventionality
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