圃隱 鄭夢周의 佛敎認識

Abstract

Poeun(圃隱=鄭夢周) is thought clearheaded person when considers he win the first place in the state examination in the way of self-education without teacher. His scholastic basis was the Confucianism scriptures including the Four Books and the Three Classics, and his scholastic characteristic was the doctrines of Chu-tz. It was a good choice that selected the doctrines of Chu-tz, the reformative ideology for his study in the age of Buddhism’s philosophic slow decline. And as a result, he became the father of Korean Confucianism. But, because of in the symmetrical period of Confucianism and uddhism, he did severe ethical criticism to the evil of Buddhism, but did not criticize in the doctrine which is basic of Buddhism. A mountain temple was the place for improve his mind, for studying, for enliven his spirits and for forget his cares to Poeun. Once, he had met the Buddhist monk for studying Buddhism doctrine and compare Buddhism with the doctrines of Chu-tz. And his conclusion was that Buddhism and Confucianism has some similar logic, but it will not be able to confront everything and make an exhaustive study of the exact meaning by the Buddhism’ logic. but that conclusion had not the exhaustive logic. In opposition, he was generous to Buddhism. And that reason, he had some extent of understanding about the Buddhism scriptures including the Avatamska Sutra(華嚴經), the Sutra of the Lotus(法華經), and the Shurangama Sutra(楞嚴經). He said, “Reading the trigram of the Book of Changes(周易) is better than reading the Avatamska Sutra.”. This words was a quotation from words of Cheng Yi(程頤), but if Poeun didn’t know about Avatamska Sutra’s logic, he can’t said like that. The Sutra of the Lotus was regarded as basic Buddhiam scripture in the period of Goryeo dynasty, and the Shurangama Sutra was recited by many people of Goryeo Buddhist because it was the scripture of Chan Zong(禪宗). Probably, his understanding about the Shurangama Sutra was fairly good. Because, there was a rumor that Poeun was immersed in the Shurangama Sutra, too. Poeun’s understanding about Buddhism has two sides. One side, he criticized to appearance of Buddhism. And the other side, he has improved his mind and thinking in a Buddhism atmosphere. Sometimes, he reached level of contemplate cosmos at the boundary of self-effacement(物我一如), but this phenomenon was not observed in Buddhism boundary only. In the doctrines of Chu-tz, he expressed practical morality in real life, but somtimes Buddhism boundary became a refuge of him, who has busy spirit, annoyed in the real world that so hard.