This article explores the distinctive transformation of Korean Sŏn Buddhism through the vigorous interactions that took place between Buddhism and Confucianism in late Chosŏn. Many literati during this period supported Buddhism financially and ideologically. They made large donations to monasteries and temples and advocated harmony between Buddhism and Confucianism. Some of them even developed their own insights into Buddhism by reading Buddhist texts, studying doctrines, and denouncing kanhwa Sŏn technique, the major practice of the Korean Sŏn tradition of the time. This yanban approach challenged the traditional Sŏn Buddhist notion that intellectual activities would hinder the goal to which only Sŏn could lead. The nineteenth-century Sŏn master Ch’oŭi Ŭisun embraced the yangban intellectual approach to Buddhism. In doing so, he not only removed the distinction between Sŏn meditation and Kyo doctrinal studies but also unified Buddhism and Confucianism in the Confucian dominant society of late Chosŏn by interpreting Confucian practices from a Buddhist perspective.
목차
Abstract I. INTRODUCTION II. CONFUCIAN LITERATI AND BUDDHISM 1. Yangban Attitude toward Buddhism 2. Ch’oŭi Ŭisun’s Life 3. The Confucian Literati’s Intellectual Approach to Buddhism III. CH’OŬI ŬISUN’S AFFIRMATION OF CONFUCIAN LITERATI’S APPROACH TO BUDDHISM 1. Sŏn Buddhist View on the Relationship between Sŏn and Kyo in Late Chosŏn 2. Ch’oŭi’s Affirmation of the Confucian Literati’s Approach to Buddhism IV. CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
키워드
Korean BuddhismChosŏn BuddhismSŏnCh’oŭi ŬisunConfucianization
저자
KIM SEONG-UK [ a visiting professor at Columbia University, New York, United States. ]
한국연구원은 1970년 5월 한국 민속의 각 분야에 걸친 자료의 수집과 학술적 연구를 목적으로 '한국민속연구소'로 출발하였다. 그 후 1973년 5월 연구 분야를 확대하며 민속뿐만 아니라 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 위해 '한국학연구소'로 개편하였고, 다시 1989년 3월 한국의 국제적 위상의 부상과 함께 한국학 연구의 중요성이 높아짐에 따라 '한국학연구원'으로 확대, 개편하였다. 한국학연구원은 한국학 전반에 걸친 연구를 통해 지역과 민족문화 발전에 기여하며 한국학의 세계화를 위해서 학술활동을 강화하고 나아가 내·외국인에 대한 한국문화 교육을 담당하고자 한다.