일반논문: ？？삼국유사？？ 출가 득도담 및 출가 성불담의 초세속 지향 양상

Abstract

This paper explores transcendental tendency of Samkukyusa(三國遺事) by analyzing stories of spiritual awakening(Nirvana) and entering the Buddhist priesthood. The process of transcendence begins with joining the priesthood. During the exercises of austerity and abstinence and the process of spiritual enlightenment, brilliant lights and colours were foregrounded. That helped its transcendental tendency reach its ultimate height. Escaping from the secular environment doesn't necessarily guarantee freedom from the secular life. It shows that we can still achieve Buhhdistic salvation in the middle of the most secular place, while we can not escape from the secular desire in the middle of the most sacred place. Throughout Samkukyusa(三國遺事) Ilyoen(一然) scattered various pictures of acetics and monks. Some of them seemed to be obsessed with the secular life and Self-Attachment(我相). Some of them seemed to reach Nirvana completely emancipated from the secular life. The former represented its secular tendency, while the latter reflected its transcendental tendency. In Buddhist Stories in Samkukyusa(三國遺事) both the sacred and the secular did not exist separately from each other. Rather both were interrelated and both interacted with each other. Transcendental tendency can only be complemented and completed by the secular experiences. This idea was deeply rooted in the motif of reflection of transcendence. The stories of joining priesthood, achieving spiritual awakening, and becoming a Buddha in Samkukyusa(三國遺事) had been transferred among teachers and their disciples. Their unique narrative structures and motives proves their circulation within these particular groups. Ilyoen(一然) studies the various narrative structures and motives in those stories and utilized them to realize what he had hoped for: attaining the wisdom of Buddhist life that aspires achieving transcendence while being faithful to the secular life.