‘나옹화상’ 명기 가사작품의 성격과 작가 문제

Abstract

This article examined the nature of Naong's specified Gasa and the reasons for advocating Naong's works as part of the works to reveal whether Naong created Gasa. In spite of the differences in content and character, the Gasa works of ‘Naong’ have a common feature in that the speaker of the work is set as a Patriarch who has attained enlightenment, that is, a patriarch. These characteristics mean that ‘Naong’ is limited to the ‘speaker’, not the writer, in the famous Gasa works of ‘Naong’. These Gasa works needed a speaker who was an enlightened patriarch, and Naong was chosen as the ‘Patriarch’. The reason why a speaker as a patriarch was needed in the famous gasa work of ‘Naong’ can be found in the contents and characteristics of Yeombulbogwonmun containing <Seowangga>. The compilation of Yombulbogwonmun, which insisted that one can be rebirth in the Pure land and becoming a Buddha only by Chanting Amitabha’s Name, can be seen as aiming for a kind of ‘Buddha chanting movement’. The creation or incorporation of <Seowangga> is due to the editor's intention to minimize criticism and opposition to Yeombulbogwonmun, which has a different argument from the existing books on Chanting Amitabha’s Name, and to strengthen his own argument. This is because it is an effective way to emphasize and recommend Chanting Amitabha’s Name and rebirth in the Pure land, not Buddha-Recollection, for a Patriarch that was enlightened by Zen meditation in the Buddhist community at the time centered on the Buddha-Recollection. In the end, Gasa works with ‘Naong’ specified next to the title or title of the work were triggered by the creation or incorporation of <Seowangga>, which was compiled and published in the 18th century. It can be said that it is a reflection of a new movement or situation in the Buddhist community.