「古見寺 寶金鐘銘」과 寺名의 變改 과정에 대하여

Abstract

This study will analyze the folk tale about ‘Gogyensa Bogeumjongmyeong(古見寺 寶金鐘銘, 1630)’, which embodies the origin of its foundation, after examining and translating ‘Jongmyeong’ into Hangeul. The study will also identify the characteristics of the name of the bell and the temple name, after reviewing the historical facts. The whole text of ‘Myeongmun(銘文)’was written by ‘Cheonbo(天宝)’ in 1630. It was founded with a height of 13cm and circumference of 194cm. It consists of 92 lines and 755 words. The number of words per each line is not consistent, and varies from at least 4 to at most 14 words. The body of the text includes the origin of the temple's foundation, calamities that affected the temple and its reconstruction, process of producing the bell, the production subject and the prayer. At the bottom, it shows ‘Myeong(銘)’, which sings the praise of the builders' services, and shows the list of 52 people related to the production. The foundation of the bell was led by the monk ‘Jonghae(宗海)’ When comparing the folk tale about ‘Jongmyeong’ with ‘Jungsugi(重修記, 1379)’ written by Lee-saek(李穡) in terms of motives including ‘period, movement, figure, feng shui, shrine where the portrait of an illustrious person is enshrined(影堂)’etc. it is seen that their motives of ‘period, feng shui and shrine’ were the same, but ‘figure, movement, buddhist scriptures’ appear to have been modified. The temple name was also modified from ‘Hyeonam(見菴)’ through ‘Hyeoam- seonsa(見菴禪寺)’, ‘Hyeonamsa(見巖寺․見岩寺)’, ‘Gohyeonam(古見岩․古見庵)’, ‘Gohyeonsa․Gogyeonsa(古見寺)’, to ‘Gogyeonsa(古見寺)’ as ‘Hahyeonam(下見菴)’ was destroyed. After ‘Sinjeungdonggukyeogiseungram(新增東國輿地勝覽)’ was translated into Hangeul in 1969, every publication and DB represents it as ‘Gyeonam․Gyeonamseonsa․Gyeonamsa․Gogyeonam․Gogyeonam’. Epitaph(碑銘) and Jongmyeong are supposed to reflect historical facts. However, there was a fabricated document about the origin of the foundation of ‘Gogyensa Jongmyeong’, possibly due to the nature of accumulation, a common phenomenon that occurs when a story is passed down orally. Therefore, ‘Myeong’ ended up having an anomalous style, and modification of the temple's name and errors in its pronunciation came about as a result.