영남대학교 중앙도서관 소장 敦煌 經卷 「大般涅槃經」 卷第三과 高麗大藏經 비교 연구

Abstract

Dunhuang Manuscripts discovered in the early 20th century at Mao Cave of Dunhuang, the city of northwestern China, are highly important materials not only in art, religion, sociology, history, literature but also in the history of book and publication. These manuscripts, mostly made in the type of hand-copied scrolls, indicate how the Buddhist Sutra was written and produced for people to see before the age of print. In the course of the years from its discovery, Dunhuang Manuscripts were dispersed to several countries and a couple of them was introduced into Korea in the middle of 1940s. Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Yeungnam University Library was identified as a manuscript of the Sui(隋) Dynasty by Pan Chong-gui who is a prominent scholar of Dunhuang Studies and also it has a distinct philological value as a hand-copied scroll. In spite of its high value of philological study, rare research on this manuscript was conducted after the simple introduction about 30 years ago. Therefore, this paper resurfaces the academic value of this manuscript and examines the differences between those two types of the Sutra in the philological point of view by comparing with the printed Goryeo Daejanggyeong.