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The Significance of the Fragments of Dojang’s Commentary on Chengshi lun in Baekje Period

Kim, Cheon-hag 1

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We can hardly find historical sources for investigating the Buddhist thought in Baekje period, even most of them depending upon sources from China and Japan. This article purports to further the study of the Buddhist thought in that period through presenting some fragments of Dojang’s Commentary on Chengshi lun in that period and investigating its historical significance. In Baekje period, it is surmised that there had been some studies of Lotus Sutra and Nirvana Sutra in addition to the spreading of the studies of Buddhist precepts. Buddhist studies in Baekje are thought to have been transmitted to Japan and to have greatly prompted the early development of studies on Buddhist precepts and San lun. Especially, the writing of a commentary on Chengshi lun in 16 scrolls by Dojang from Baekje became a paradigm of the studies of Chengshi lun in Japanese Buddhism. Dojang’s Commentary had been studied mainly in the school of San lun of Dodaiji until the Kamakura period. In that period, it became spread widely. Through the fragments of Dojang’s Commentary we can see that this process reflects fairly the importance of Dojang’s appropriation of the studies of Chengshi lun, Nirvana Sutra, Dashabhumika Shastras, Tien-Tai thought, and Buddhist precepts in Liang dynasty of China. This can also shed light upon the academic situation of Baekje Buddhism in the time of Dojang in addition to the academic situation of Japanese Buddhism until 8the Century.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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