天台의 助道對治 硏究 －六度와 道品 중심으로－

Abstract

This study makes consideration on a series of ascetic exercises that are opening the Three Gates of Emancipation (三解脫門) entering into Muru (undefiled)’s Nirvana through the ordinary as well as the assisting practice methods and through the Six Pāramitās (Disciplinary practice 六波羅蜜) as the Law of Way to help (助道法). In this context, the study have its significance in consideration on the Role Theories of the Six Pāramitās and the Practice methods (道 品) together with on their systems. It is because that even if anyone reaches to the Nirvana through controlling the 37 practice methods (道品調適) for ascetic exercises, but if fails to open the Three Gates of Emancipation (三解脫門), it has been explained as failure in responding to the truthfulness of Muru. In this study, discussions were made on the argument that the Six Pāramitās is placed at the center of the way that helps to open these three gates of emancipation (三解脫門).Also, it makes considerations on the necessity of the Way to Help for Self-Control (助道對治) and on the contents of salvation of sentient beings through great compassion by the practice methods (道品攝受) in accordance with the Six Pāramitās (六波羅蜜) as the Law of Way to help (助道法). Most of all, the study has its significance as it searches the meanings by classification for the necessity of the Way to Help for Self-Control. It claims that the necessity of the Way to Help for Self-Control (助道對治) is from the 4 kinds of Spirits. When the basic mind is dull, it cannot open three gates of emancipation (三解脫門), while when the blocking is too severe, it causes the contemplation of mind fall apart. In such case, a way to help is indispensably required. The study intended to give salience to the role of the Six perfections as the way of helping in this perspective. Furthermore, the study also clarifies that the Way to Help for Self-Control which is one of Chontae’s ten-stage meditation methods (十乘觀法) has been explained according to the meaning of articles in the Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom (大智度論).