향가의 서정주체와 불국사·석굴암의 조성 방식

Abstract

This thesis is composed to inquire into the role of Hyang-ga during the process of GyeongJu, capital of Silla becoming religious shrine in the lyricism subject. I suggest a principle for foundation of the Bulguksa and Seokguram temples, which both represent the art history of the Silla Dynasty through four songs of Hyang-ga in the temples of Chungdamsa and Wolmyeongsa which come from the same period of King Gyeong Deok era. I found the clue on how to approach the ‘shrine’ conceived by the nation of Silla. The results of the argument are like the following. First, the point which claims our attention is the aesthetic quality of Hyang-ga. This quality does not manifeste itself simply by examining spatial image and contents of the Hyang-ga. Second, the difference between rhetorical methods of Chungdamsa and Wolmyeongsa had a chance to be revealed. There is the aspect that reminds us of the difference of Bulguksa and Seokguram between those methods. Chungdamsa had accepted conventional poetic diction and ascribed ‘general’ and ‘abstract’ symbolism into all kinds of subject which were then categorized. Wolmyeongsa had synthesized the poetic diction with other lexicon to attempt to emphasize the specific and heuristic symbols. Third, it has revealed that the attempts of Chungdamsa and Wolmyeongsa had more significant meaning than revelation of rhetorical method.