無用秀演의 禪詩 硏究

Abstract

This study examined the life of Muyong Suyeon(無用 秀演, 1651∼1719) with his anthology Muyongdangyugo(『無用堂遺稿』) in the latter half of Joseon, looked into the development patterns, views of poetry and prose, and characteristics of his Zen poetry, and figured out his significance in the literary history of Zen poetry. Muyong engaged in Sammun(三門) lessons based on the theological foundation of the Śūnyatāvāda-style Gyohak viewpoint of Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra and the Buddhist invocation for Buddhist Elysium by inheriting the Zen lineage of Baekam Seongchong(栢庵 性聰) of the Buhyu(浮休) line, which is one of the trends in the Buddhist community those days. Muyong maintained the hyundojigu(現道之具) view of poetry and prose, which says that people can enter truth and reach the state of saints through writings even though they are not saints themselves since writing is the expression of their truth by saints and that the completion of truth is the completion of writing. He is also characterized by the practice of showing the principle of Buddha's teachings with poetics words containing the principles of Confucianism and Taoism such as Yeonbieoyak(鳶飛魚躍) and Mulailche(物我一體) rather than the poetic words of Zen in his works expressing the state of realization and his Sudap(酬答) poems with Confucian scholars based on such a view of poetry and prose. The practice eventually achieved the effect of showing the Manmulbuje(萬物不齊)-style Mui(無二) ideology of Sasamuae(事事無礙) . Those characteristics of his Zen poetry have important values as historical materials with which to understand one of the patterns adopted by Buddhist priests to react to Confucian scholars logically those days and help to enrich the literature of Zen poetry even further by broadening the scope of literary history of Zen poetry in the latter half of Joseon, thus claiming their significance.