정조시대 龍珠寺 創建과 정치적 활용

Abstract

Founded in the late Chosun Dynasty during the King Jeongjo period, Yongjusa Temple was built as a Memorial Temple for Crown Prince Sado. In the days when pro-Confucianism/anti-Buddhism was the founding ideology of the Chosun Dynasty, the Temple, led(spearheaded) by the king, naturally contains political intentions. Jeongjo, whose legitimacy of succession to the throne was weak after the death of the biological father Crown Prince Sado, moved the grave of Crown Prince Sado to Hwasan in Suwon, known as the most propitious site of the world for a grave(Cheonha Myeongdang), to secure his legitimacy and strengthen his kingship. Not only he moved his father’s tomb to the Hyeonryeongwon but he also built the Memorial Temple of Crown Prince Sado. However, it is not appropriate to evaluate that the establishment of Yongjusa Temple was due to Jeongjo’s filial piety. For the construction of Yongjusa Temple, King Jeongjo provided the cost of construction from the donation of the royal family, high-ranking officials, monks, and the people. It was also a popularization project for the restoration of the honor of the Crown Prince Sado to raise the amount in this way from all the people of Chosun. Having the premier Chae Je Gong write the Sangryangmun of Yongjusa Temple Daewoongbojeon, Gyujanggak Prosecutor Lee Deokmu write the Yongjusa Juryon, and opening the Mucha Contest on the day Samsebul was enshrined in Daewoongbojeon was to raise the status of Yongjusa. In addition, the king himself wrote the ‘Yongjusabong-bulgibokge’ and gave it to the people to recognize that he was the same as Chakravartin, a Buddha who was born through the fusion of Confucianism and Buddhism, and the enlightened king. In particular, it was the intention of establishing a new monk military system that maximizes its status by appointing haed of Yongjusa as the President monk of the monk military system of Chosun dynasty and making him control the monk soldier of the South and North mountain fortress, and was intended to establish a regional defense system in connection with Jang Yong-young and outer area stationed in Suwon. In addition to this, <Parent Eunjunggyeong> was given to Yongjusa Temple to make it the central school of filial piety, and emphasized that Confucian filial piety and Buddhism filial piety are not different. In particular, through the dissemination of <Parent Eunjunggyeong>, the Seohak, which was recognized as a heresy. which was recognized as a heresy by prohibiting the rites to ancestors at the time, was to checked. It is a political intention to control heresy with heresy, and to inform the people of King himself’s filial piety and demand faithfulness through this. This thesis reveals the political intent and leverage of the founding and operation of Yongjusa Temple by Jeongjo through Saryo such as Ilseongrok, Suwonhaji chorock, and the Korean version of ‘Jeongriuigwe (Dolliuigwe)’ in France.