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The Thought of Chinese Buddhism's Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra and Lee Gyu-bo's Buddhist Poems

LI YAN 1

1대진대학교

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ABSTRACT

It is obvious that Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra had already been accepted in the Korean Peninsula at the time of Goryeo dynasty. The most important historical record that could prove this fact is just the Buddhist poems connected to Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra with the number over 20 which was written by Lee Gyu-bo during his whole life. The trajectory how Lee Gyu-bo assimilated Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra's thoughts could be clearly found through these poems. It is generally appreciated that Śurangama-sūtra influenced Lee Gyu-bo's latter years intensively, but Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra's influence is continued from his early 20s until just one year before he died. To analyse on the plane of these poems' contents specifically, the thoughts that Lee Gyu-bo accepted from Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra could be subdivided into three important kinds of Emptiness, Zen and Non-duality. Lee Gyu-bo who started seeking the truth of Emptiness from the typical words of Stone Female, Adust Millet, etc. which are the symbols of Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra's Emptiness thought finally realized the nature of Emptiness and reached the spiritual realm of practicing abstinence like a Buddhist monk without leaving home by following the example of lay practitioner Vimalakīrti. Moreover the common practice of Zen's popular circumstances during the time of Lee Gyu-bo could also be found in several poems that connected with Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra's Zen thought. And the trajectory that Lee Gyu-bo started studying Non-duality thought from very young age and finally found the enlightenment until his middle age is revealed very clearly, too.

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