「大光明殿三成功畢後懸板」을 통해 본통도사 가람의 변화와 의미

Abstract

This article is about damage and recovery of Tongdosa the central axis by a big fire in Oct. 21, 1756. According to the signboard which was recorded the situation at that time, four sanctuaries, four monks’ dwellings and 10 storages were completelyde stroyed by fire. After the fire, it took a lot of money and four years tore store perfectly by monks and Buddhists. In this article, we presumed how the fire broke out and four sanctuaries what were destroyed by fire, and also tracked the reconstruction of each sanctuary. As a result of the consideration, we presumed destroyed and then restored sanctuaries were Deagwangmyeong-Joen, Munsu-Joen, Myoungbu-Joen and Yonghwa-Joen. In 1757, the year after the fire, Munsu-Joen was restored first, in 1758, Deagwangmyeong-Joen and Yonghwa-Joen were restored, and in 1760, Myoungbu-Joen was restored. Especially the reason they restored Munsu-Joen first was considered the realization of Monk-Jajang’s faith with Tongdosa’s founding spirit. And also we could find the name of sanctuary was changed and unique design for fire prevention was added to the building through the structure of Deagwangmyeong-Joen and Yonghwa-Joen. With reconstruction of each sanctuary, the last noticeably thing is they established Three parallel area system as Tongdosa-Temple’s features by foundation of Incense Hall. We could know they had elevated horrendous conditions after the fire into the new changed through the process of reconstruction. As a result, we should highly praise that they made the nature of Three parallel area clear and then completed Tongdosa- temple arrangement by reconstruction.