혜영(慧影) 『대지도론소(大智度論疏)』에 대한 기초적 고찰

Abstract

This article purports to be a basic study of the Commentary on the Dazhidulun (大智度論疏) by Huiying (慧影) in order to investigate the reality of Chinese Buddhism in the Northern Dynasties. This is the earliest extant commentary on the Dazhidulun (大智度論), which is regarded to be written by Nāgārjuna and translated by Kumārajīva. According to the Sequel to the Biographies of Eminent Monks (續高僧 傳), Huiying died in the year of 600, thus the Commentary on the Dazhidulunwas likely completed before his death. This work is recorded to have been composed of 24 fascicles, although only seven fascicles remain today, three of which suffered little to no damage. This article aims to provide a general analysis of the annotation style and arrangement of the contents of the extant commentary. The first fascicle of the commentary, the annotation of the foremost poetic lines of the Dazhidulun, is composed of explications following the text (隨文解 釋). From the fifth fascicle, however, the commentarial work is ascertained to have the style of annotating each section (品) of the Dazhidulun, focusing upon the general significance of each word with the division of its sentences according to their substance, and distinguishing further its specific content and annotating each passage separately.