『조당집』과 원상(圓相)의 문제 - 원상 연구를 위한 시론 -

Abstract

Wonsang is the starting point for understanding the fluctuations in Southern Sŏn(Ch’an/Zen) that occurred before Linji-line emerged as the mainstream of the Mazu-line. Zutangji emerged as the document that transformed the Southern Sŏn's problem through the Wonsang and new biography of Huineng. Zutangji implies the problem that was at two inflection points in history of Sŏn. One is the problem of the era in which the initiative of the Southern Sŏn is shifted from Shenhui-line to Mazu-line, and the other is that of the era in which Hongzu-sect is embodied as the Guiyang sect. Wonsang sermon appeared with the transition in which Huineng’s lyrics of mind, “The Buddha nature is always clean” in the text of Shenhui-line which including Dunhuang version of Platform Sutra, is changed to “nothing originally” in the Mazu-line literature. In this respect, Wonsang is the essential concept to understand the change in initiative in the succession of Platform-Sutra. The narrative that Wonsang originated from Huizhong and passed down to Yangshan via Danyuan parallels Huizhong, who appeared as Huineng’s new successor in Zutangji, as a representative of ‘mindlessness’ and ‘Buddha-nature of insentience’ in order to criticize Shenhui’s theory of mind. By Zutangji, tendency of Sŏn thoughts can be reconstructed, and in this way, Silla Ogwansan Sunji’s Wonsang sermon can be provided a context to be understood within the imaginable macroscopic fluctuations of history of Sŏn.