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A Study of Woljeodoan’s Sangeo-Poetry(山居詩)

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2007, (60), pp.185-206
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

김석태 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Woljeodoan was a representative person of Buddhism in the seventeenth century. He succeeded Cheongheohyujeong as an ascetic who disciplined Seon and the discourse of the Budda. He published some books of the Mahayana Buddhism such as the Hua-yen sutra and the Lotus sutra, and devoted his life to educate the public. Woljeodoan was so interested in writing a poem that he made many forms of poem including a through-composed song and a cantos like Sanjungsasisa, Gyeongseeonji, Yugeojabyeong. He created poems imitating the rhymes of Sodongpa who was a famous poet in China and Chacheonno who was a representative poet of Chosun. Though he was a Buddhist, he also studied Confucianism hard and kept company with many intelligences from that religion. It made him able to express the harmony of Buddhism and Confucianism. This treatise studied a realm of Woljeodoan’s poetry focused on a through-composed song. One of his poem’s characteristics is that he express a great morale which shows his living style freely through the time and the space. Another is that it described human’s peaceful inside regardless of any adhesions. His mental realm was based on the Hua-yen and Seon. These thought that all things in universe harmonized together is the most ideal state. Likewise, his poems persued the harmony of universe, peace, the free spirit of human and the life without any greed.

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