한국불교학 40년, 중관학의 연구성과와 과제

Abstract

The purpose of this article is examining the research products andsubjects of Madhyamaka Studies of the Korean Buddhist AcademicWorld, during 40years after foundation of the Korean Association forBuddhist Studies. Present writer examined the research products ofMadhyamaka Studies centered on period and person, raising up theupper limit of period to 1950, dividing the period into 1950∼1980 and1981∼2012, to help reader's general understaning, and examined theresearch subjects of Mdhyamaka Studies based on that. So presentwriter knew the facts as follows. The important research products of Madhyamaka Studies from1950 to 1980 are the formation of research scope by Dongwha Kim(김동화) and Ingsuk Kim(김잉석), the translation of 24th chapter ofMūlamadhyamaka-kārikā(『근본중송』) from Sanskrit to Korean byTaehyuk Jung(정태혁), and the translation of whole verses ofChung-Lun from Chinese to Korean by Sanduk Hwang(황산덕). IndukKim(김인덕) and Hau Kim(김하우), the important scholars from 1980to 1991, succeed the researches of Dongwha Kim and Ingsuk Kim, andpropagate it to younger scholars. The research products from 1991 to2012 show that the various research papers and works published invarious research fields, and the research tendencies of that time are asuccession of traditional research field and a development of newresearch field. The translations of texts from 1981 to 2012 show that 1) the greater part of the translations are being on Nāgārjuna's works,2) the translations for reasons of policy are much more than thetranslations for reasons of individual, and 3) the translations onChinese works are much more than Sanskrit or Tibetan works. But the Madhyamaka Studies are divided historically into theformer, middle, latter Madhyamaka Studies, and divided theoreticallyinto the philological, philosophical, hermeneutical, thought comparativestudies. So, following that division, the research products ofMadhyamaka Studies of the Korean Buddhist Academic World showthat the balanced researches are required historically, even thoughtheoretically in balanced status, for most of the research products areconcentrated on former Madhyamaka, and the translation productsalso show that the balanced translations are required for most of thetranslations are concentrated on Nagarjuna's works. These show thatthe researches and translations of the middle and latter Madhyamakaare needed along with of the former Madhyamaka. Following Katsura Shoryu(桂 紹隆)'s article, the researchtendencies on Indian Buddhism of the International Buddhist AcademicWorld are 1) the wide reference of Tibetan buddhist texts, 2) theinternationalization of buddhist studies, 3) the diversification ofresearch method, 4) the popularization of codicology, 5) thecomputerization of buddhist texts. So the Madhyamaka Studies ofKorean Buddhist Academic World also need 1) the expansion ofphilological studies and translations of texts into Korean not only onthe former Madhyamaka texts but also the middle and latterMadhyamaka texts, 2) the studies of Madhyamaka based not only onChinese and Sanskrit texts but also on Tibetan texts, 3) theinternational academic exchange, and 4) the copmputerization of thatresearch products and translations. And it needs of wide interests andsupports of goverenment, universities, research institutes, and studysocieties to do that works. So it needs not only of endavours of individual scholars but also interests and supports of goverenment,universities etc. for the quantitative as well as qualitative developmentof the Madhyamaka Studies of the Korean Buddhist Academic World.