中國 山西省의 小形佛敎石窟에 관한 硏究 -羊頭山의 북조 석굴군을 중심으로-

Abstract

As a part of the study on the small Buddhist caves of Shanxi, this paper focuses on the Yangtoushan Caves, which are relatively well preserved. A total number of nine Yangtoushan Caves are currently confirmed. The third through the eighth caves are examples of caves built during the age of the Northern Dynasties. The main caves are considered to be the third and the fifth Caves. In this paper, I first examined the current status of Yangtoushan Caves, and then examined the style and formal characteristics of the main room, the Buddha statue, and the Guardian King statues by comparing with the Shanxi Buddhist statues and the Northern Dynasties. As a result, the Standing Buddha placed on both sides of the entrance of the third cave (in the Yangtoushan Caves) and the Seated Sakyamuni and Prabhutaratna of the fifth cave are presumed to have been made around the middle of the Taihe period (the flourishing period of Northern Wei Buddhism), after the Northern Wei built tanyaowuku in Datong around 460 A.D. It is considered that the influences of Yungang Caves in the first half of the Northern Wei are especially rich in the dress code and the composition of the niche for Buddhist image. In addition, the type of the rectangular chamber in the main room, the composition of the Buddha statue triads, and the dress code of the Chinese style are similar to those of the third period cave of Yungang Caves in the late Northern Wei period, and the statues of the Longmen and Gongxian Caves, It can be said that the Chinese style policy after Luoyang capital was reflected in Buddhist statues. On the other hand, the Yangtoushan Caves are arranged in pairs on the both sides of the Guardian King statues, except for the 3rd and the 6th caves, which emphasize dynamic and realistic muscle expression. The Guardian King statues were confirmed in Luoyang and its neighboring areas since the middle of the 6th century, including the Longmen Caves of the latter days of the Northern Wei, and it was presumed that the Yangtoushan Caves were formed under this new Guardian King statues influence. But also as a demonstration of the transitional development in the Northern Dynasties Guardian King statues. In this paper, it is presumed that this change confirmed in the Guardian King statues of the Yangtoushan Caves positively accommodates the ancestral form of the Longmen Caves and Luoyang caves due to the Luoyang capital of Northern Wei. Located in the southernmost end of Shanxi, the Buddhist sanctuary is where the Qinghua temple of Confucius was erected at the time of the Northern Wei period. It was the place where Huiyuan, a prominent Buddhist priest, stayed and performed Buddhism. In addition, since the historical geographical characteristics of Gaoping and democratization period were examined and the traffic roads of Shanxi province was examined, it was a key point on the north and south highway of Shanxi connecting Datong and Luoyang, Since the year, it has maintained the North style culture rather than accepting the new culture of the north-western period, and it has been associated with the local indigenous cultures and assumed to have evolved into a "certain local style to the Gaoping." This local color, which is found in the Northern Dynasties Caves of Yangtoushan Caves, again confirmed that it was not the emperor or the nobleman who remained in the cave but a private shrine that was active in the vicinity of the Gaoping. In this way, it can be seen from the fact that the historical events of transferring the capital to Luoyang Taihe 18(A.D. 494) the Northern Wei through the Yangtoushan Caves, and the phenomenon of the Chineseization of the northern Buddhist statues, I think I can find the meaning of the caves.