天台에서 본 漢岩스님의 선사상

Abstract

Hanam(漢岩), a representative teacher of modern Korean Buddhism,is a great master who led Korean Buddhism with restrict religious preceptsand practice. There are some commons between Hanam and T‘ien-t’aiFirst, in Five regulations of Shangha, Hanam took mottos, externallyfor proper defiled behavior, internally for pure mind, and for unitedharmony with people. We can find out the common in that T‘ien-t’ai focused on theimportance of meditation practice through fulfilling precepts andpenitence. Second, the common thing between Hanam's Seon for Buddhistprayer topic and Amitabha by calling him & practical prayer is all notto reborn in Western Pure Land paradise world by simply callingAmitabha's name, but to consider Buddhist prayer as a subsidiary wayfor śamatha(止) and Vipaśyanā(觀) practice, not to chant just with hightone, but it puts a value on Seon of Buddhist prayer topic thinking whois the person chanting. Third, Hanam said that a Buddhist monk who was a teacher ofhuman and the sky should possess the knowledge to teach and leadsentient beings and study Tripitaka(三藏). And it showed that doctrine and Seon were not different from eachother through the special lecture about reading Sutras and the main textof Buddhist Schools during retreats. Such a point of simultaneous practice with Seon and doctrine wasshown in T‘ien-t’ai 's samadhi which was a practice of walking andsitting, half and half, among 4 samadhis. That is, this Seon practice with reading sutras and meditation togetheris a way of practice which is valuable to refer deeply for diversity ofmeditation. There has been a bias generally that there is no common thingbetween Hanam and T‘ien-t’aiBut it lets us know that the goals they were facing were not different,as the part that the Practice of Śila, Contemplation, and Wisdom Threesupreme principles, the simultaneous practice of Seon & Doctrine andChanting were not to reborn in Heaven simply calling the name ofAmitabha, but to consider it as a way of obtaining the truth.