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A Study on the Extension of Korean Buddhist Literature - Focused on Taehyun’s Bosalgyebonjongyo -

Kim, Cheon-hag 1

1동국대학교

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The purpose of this study is to expand the boundary of Korean studies by paying attention to Korean, Chinese, and Japanese commentaries on the Buddhist texts written by Koreans. This is because the study on the East Asian commentaries on Korean Buddhist literatures can broden the scope of Korean studies in that Korean Buddhism extends its scope through Korean, Chinese, and Japanese commentaries of Korean Buddhist literatures and its extended domain continues to spread through various speculation. This article introduces the commentaries of 11 Koreans (9 Silla, 1 Koryeo, 1 Chosun) surveyed to date, and in particular, focusing on Bosatsukaihonshuyousho(菩薩戒本宗要鈔), a commentary on Taehyun (太賢)’s Bosalgyebonjongyo(菩薩戒本宗要, hereafter Jongyo), I examined the expansion and significance of Korean studies. Jongyo is the document which became the standard of the practice together with Beommanggyeonggojeoggi (梵網經古迹記) in Japan which places emphasis on the bodhisattva precepts. This point can be seen from the fact that the Taehyun was regarded more important even though there were many characters before him such as Zhiyi(智顗), Fazang(法藏) in China and Wonhyo(元曉), Uijeog(義寂) in Silla dynasty. This shows that Taehyun’s interpretation of Beommanggyeong was important in the understandins of bodhisattva precepts in Japan. It is presumed that Jongyo was handed over to China soon after it was written and it was handed to Japan as well at the time of Beommanggyeonggojeoggi’s passing to Japan. In China, since Daofong (道峯)’s preface had been attached, the significance of Taehyun is highlighted and Jongyo with the preface was brought to Japan again. Thereafter more than nine kinds of annotations on Jongyo with Daofong’s preface were written in Japan. On the other hand, there are three kinds of commentaries on Jongyo without Daofong’s preface. In this way, Jongyo was spread widely in Japan and the fact that Taehyun was highly appreciated in China could be one reason for this situation. This is an example of expanding the scope of Korean Buddhism by the process in which Jongyo, a Korean Buddhist literature was appreciated in China and Japan, and many commentaries were written as well in China and Japan.

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