도심과 자연에 동화된 사찰에 담긴 이야기 -사찰경영의 철학적 담론을 중심으로-

Abstract

Buddhist temple management should seek development and change based simultaneously on fundamental policy, reserving history and tradition. Any community that rejects these changes has gone backward; however, timely change allows a community to keep morality inside; moreover, it makes society, outside of temple, able to return to the temple. Historically, buddhism in Korea not only led the spirit of the age, but also demanded morality from it. Therefore, Korean buddhism can be characterized by those attributes and should be kept in such way in the future. A temple is a place far away from troubles and the complicated secular world, which allows one to discover purification. Also, it is a complete steppingstone to lead one back to the secular world. The experience of a temple stay can heal one's wounded soul, mangled with competition, disorder, and selfishness as well as allow that individual a serene atmosphere in which to find inner peace, calm down and become purified. In this way, one can recover from an unperturbed mind and rediscover their way in a troubled society. The idea of 'leaving a space blank' is closely related with Korean culture and this idea is congruent with the location and philosophy of the temple. As such, it is necessary to create a system that can make people, while staying at temple, feel relaxed in a natural way as they are at home, rather than make them educated or coaxed religiously. In addition, more effort should be made to encourage people outside of temple to be familiar with the idea of 'leaving a space blank'. Given this, people outside of the temple can enjoy approachable access to temple by means of experience and traditional temple attitude. To sum up, the buddhist community should be ready to share the attractiveness and aesthetic pleasure of the temple experience to more people.