指空의 敎⋅禪修學 주장에 대한 검토와 문제점

Abstract

Jigong was born in about AD 1300 around a century after AD 1203 that is usually told to be the end of Indian Buddhism. He left his house in Nālandā at the age of eight. Since then, Jigong studied in India and Sri Lanka and passed Tibet to reach the East Asia. At that time, he came to exert a great influence on the Goryeo Buddhism. So, at Hoeamsa temple in Yangju, Gyeonggido, there is a monument named <Yangju Hoeamsa Jigong Zen-master Budobi(楊州檜巖寺指空禪師浮屠碑)>, the contents of which was written by Yi Saeg(李穡) based on the confession of Jigong himself. This was the last statement of the Buddhist master who had directly experienced the Indian Buddhism. By the way, the contents of this monument is noteworthy because they have something discordant with the results of modern Buddhist studies. In this study, the validity and problems of Jigong’s statement are reviewed, through which it is tried to draw out more accurate viewpoints about the last situation of Indian Buddhism. The problematic parts among the Jigong’s statement are “the house-leaving in Nālandā and the regular study of Gyohag(敎學)’ and ‘the pattern of Zen Buddhism in Lanka Kingdom and his wandering around’. In this study, such problems are analyzed to point out that there might be some exaggerations in Jigong’s statement about his own experience and Buddhist discipline while comparing them with the East Asian Buddhist traditions. Jigong’s statement about Indian Buddhism is very important because it can cover the vacant part of Buddhist history that has not known till now. Therefore, through the critical review about it, we can make the Buddhist history more abundant. That is, by analyzing the Jigong’s records in Korea, we can make Jigong’s position more clearly and find out the last state of Indian Buddhism as well.