枕肱의 <太平曲>에 대한 현실주의적 독법

Abstract

It seems to be a commonsense that the very first literary work in Gasa genere is the <Seowangga> producted by Naong at the end of the Goryeo dynasty(15thcentury). But it had been transmitted from generation to generation as oral literature. It was recorded in 1704 at Buddhist ritual book name of <Bogwon Yeombulmun>(보권염불문). As far as relying on documentary record, Chim Gyoeng(침굉)'s Gasa works were the very first literary works in Buddhist Gasa. Therefore, pursuit of his works is very important to brighten Buddhist Gasa's development. In this paper I tried to brighten the realistic characters in Chim Gyoeng(침굉)'s Gasa "Taepyeonggok"(太平曲). A few realities were recorded in this work. At the end of 17th century the monks especially residing at Seonam temple had been performed various hard works, including gathering mountain fruits-pears, chestnut, mushroom, and making yeast, shoes made by twine, and paper made by the paper mulberry. Especially, these items were not only temple's main income source but also tributary payment which had been requested from the provincial government office. The second, he claimed that many monks' purpose of entering temples were not for pursuit of the truth but for escaping from military duty. Therefore, the level of depute was too lower than former times. At the end of this work, he claimed a few of countermeasures- reforming the curriculum, recovering the way of Zen performance. It may be understood that the way of Chim Gyoeng(침굉)'s reformation to monks group is too passive to decrease this work's value as a realistic literary. However, it can also be understood that it is a different way of making a figure. In accordance with this way, this work maintained literary level higher, and did not fall down to propaganda literature.