신라시대 불국사상의 교학적 이해연구

Abstract

Buddhism in the era of the Silla dynasty shows an unique idea of Buddha’s Land, which is to not only regard the reality of humanity’s land as a Pure Land, but also as a Pure Land where those Mahasattvas like Manjusri and Avalokitesvara are residing where any lay people who practice Buddhism can go to Pure Land with their immediate body of this real world. The background of these ideas originates from tough conflicts between the traditional religion of Shamanism and the newly imported Buddhism, so that the king and the royal generation of the Silla dynasty had to suggest a foundation of importing Buddhism. Therefore, in Samgukyusa三國遺事, there are many folk tales in which sculptures of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Buddhist Stupas are found beneath the land or are forced out of the land, and those tales describe the foundation that regards the land of Silla as Buddha’s land in which Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have lived since before the existence of humans. The idea of Buddha’s Land is important, as it has caused many to be devoted to the building of Buddhist relics and constructions like Seokgulam石窟庵 and Bulguksa Temple, so it is important to understand the background and foundation of the ideas that support those ideas of Buddha’s land, which was founded by Wonhyo’s Gum gang sam mae gyung ron 金剛三昧經論, and Bulgasaui’s Commentary of Vairocana Sutra’s Rite that Wonhyo and other Buddhist masters founded Buddha’s land oriented with the Mind Only, as well as Hwaom, who thought that instead of what Bulgasaui suggested, the foundation of the practices of Esoteric Buddhism were to support the Immediate Accomplishment of Buddha’s body.