봉은사 생전예수재의 위상과 의의

Abstract

With regard to Advance Funeral Ceremony, the purpose of this paper is to illuminate the history, current suatus and its value of Bongeunsa Temple. It examines the historical fondation of Advance Funeral Ceremony at Bongeunsae, which has been left as a record since the Joseon Dynasty, and examines its continuity and reality. Since 1960, Bongeunsa has set a new model of Buddhist ritual that is a combination of Advance Funeral Ceremony, and Ceremony for Saving All Sentient Beings of Water and Land, which is also proved in historical rituals. Since 1993, Bongeunsa is a new model of the new movement in relation to Advance Funeral Ceremony. Bongeunsa Tmeple is faithfully restored and transmitted based on the historical legacy and ritual literatures since 2016. Advance Funeral Ceremony at Bongeunsa temple is coexisted both the sacrificial and the performer personality of the participant. In other words, while restoring, inheriting, and preserving the tradition of rituals, the practical nature of performance is seeking change in accordance with the times. As religious phenomenology, Advance Funeral Ceremony should be understood as a real phenomenon in which individual experience or experience can never be reduced. In addition, the periodic execution of the Advance Funeral Ceremony is not only the expereince of community but also experience of sacredness which is toally different from everday life. In terms of the theory of behavior, Advance Funeral Ceremony requires active of the participants, and in practice, it is not a simple literature-based theory but a complex and diverse cultural realization.