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A Study on Seon-Gyo Oneness and Faith of Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows of Master Chejing

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2013, (111), pp.125-158
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Seung-Hoon Kwaak 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents an investigation into the Seon(禪) ideology and faith of Master Chejing(體澄) that was active at Borim Temple(寶林寺) during the late period(下代) of Silla. The Pochoseonsapimyong( 普照禪師碑銘, on the inscriptions of Master Chejing's biography) says that the remarkable principle of Seon ideology represented by emptiness is the same as the realization that Peoples and Vairocana are one body. The idea that Peoples are the same as Vairocana-Buddha derives from the ideology of Dharmakaya-Buddha(法身 佛) in Avatamsaka Sutra. Master Chejing put it in parallel to realization through Seon, thus interpreting Seon and Gyo(敎) and striking harmony between them. Settling down at Borim Temple, Master Chejing made and enshrined a new statue of Vairocana-Buddha, which reflected his wish for entering the Vairocana-Buddha World and followed the teachings of Avatamsaka Sutra. One should practice the Great Ten Vows(十種大願) of Samantabhadra called Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows(普賢行願) in order to enter the Vairocana-Buddha World. What is noteworthy about Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows is that Bodhisattva should always breathe and follow with peoples. One can achieve realization by practicing Samanta-bhadra’s Practice(普賢行) for peoples like so, but there will be no Buddhistic emancipation without peoples. In the end, Samanta-bhadra’s Practice of Avatamsaka Sutra is the faith of practice to breathe with peoples in the world of peoples. The development of faith of Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows attracted the attention of the central government as the faith of practice of Seon-Gyo Oneness(禪敎一體), which is well demonstrated in the fact that the votive inscription of a statue of Vairocana-Buddha made during the reign of King Gyeongmun(景文王) contained content related to the faith(or ideology) of Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows. It was the same with the inscriptions of high monk's biography set up later. Those cases definitely indicate that Master Chejing's faith of Samanta-bhadra’s Practice and Vows was broadly spread.

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