한ㆍ 일 불교 歌論의 비교 고찰 ― 『均如傳』과 『沙石集』을 중심으로 ―

Abstract

By sharing Chinese character as a writing system and Buddhism as a religion, Ancient East Asia could be grouped together under the same culture. Even though they had their own language, religion and literal tradition respectively, they had been have common factors such as using chinese characters as means of literature transmission and making use of buddhism as way of fortifying rulership. Especially, "Kyunye zen" and "shasekishu" should be compared in terms of Buddhism and spiritual awareness in usage of letters since it is nearly the first book which have mentioned about theory of song through the view point of Buddhism. "Shasekishu" is a piece of Japanese legendary literature written in the medieval period as "Kyunye zen" is one of famous Hyangga anthology written in the Koryo period in Korea. Firstly, it suggested the concept of Buddhism song and music theory that was supposed to pursue harmonious society. Furthermore, it have provided a clear foundation of the function of song in those days. Until that time, song have been played an active role in building society. However, once Buddhism was gained power over society, it have been doubled it's power through combination of "jari"(beneficial to oneself) and "ita" (beneficial to another) sprit. Secondly, it showed that secular words and mundane order by worldly jargons could be the best way of delivering the depth of buddhistic world. A keen insight of the essence and usage of songs were predominant. For instance, it was considered that the common world and worldly topic were suitable for expressing magnificent world of Buddhism. In "shasekishu", waka was regarded as Tarani as it was repeated many times and contracted only by 31 letters. Finally, it represents new approached toward theory of songs in terms of Buddhism. Both of books showed positive stand points about function and meaning of songs that was used in propagation in Buddhism.