조선중기 文人士大夫의 불교인식 -柳夢寅과 許筠을 중심으로-

Abstract

The topic of this paper is how Korean literary noblemen accept Buddhism in the era of King Seon Jo and Kwang Hae Gun. Especially, It is focused on the change of confucian noblemen’s perspective about Buddhism and Buddhist in Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. This research can add new cognition about Korean literature and Buddhism history in the mid-Chosun. Buddhism was what Korean literary noblemen thought as the target of rejection. But this perspective started to be accepted as new cognition in Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. The reason that it was accepted is so many Uiseunggun(Buddhists’ army that fights against to Japanese invasion) tried to resist to Japanese army. Uiseunggun that Seosan, Samyung led to war not only won so many battles but also was more active in transporting provisions, constructing fortresses than the royal forces did. After war, they also took an active part in post-war reconstruction work and fixing castles. These their works changed the view of confucian noblemen about Buddhism. Especially, literary noblemen frequent connect to the monk who wrote many poems such as Saseung and Samyung. And they also tried to accept new cognition to them. This paper focused on Yu mongin and Heo Gyun who represent famous literary noblemen that time. Yu mongin never talked about what Buddhist scriptures he had read in detail. But he showed fragmentarily his opinion about Buddhism in his literatures that he had imitated Buddhist scriptures to give monks. He accepted Buddhism as a confucian nobleman in confucian perspective. <Inganbullon> is the paper handling his opinions in <Hyoneungumgyung> written by him. However, his style of writing helps to know his cognition about Zen Buddhism. Heo Gyun is Buddhist who read thousands of Buddhist scriptures while he is a confucian nobleman. He also interrelated with Zen monks such as Seosan, Samyung and Hae Ann and learned Zen from them. And he controversially talked about his opinion regarding Zen and studying Zen. But his opinion and devotion to Buddhism made him dismissed from his position. In these points, we can know Heo Gyun had more positive tendency than Yu mongin did.