新羅의 大官寺 조영과 그 목적

Abstract

The Wanggung-ri relic of Iksan was utilized as a royal palace and changed in its use as a Buddhist temple at some point. The relic related to the temple had roof tiles inscribed with temple names such as "Daegwangwansa," "Daewanggungsa" and "Wanggungsa" excavated. They indicate that Daegwansa recorded in an article from the eighth year(661) of King Taejong Muyeol in the Silla Bongi of Samguksagi stood here. Previous studies estimated that Daegwansa was built during the reign of King Mu in Baekje, the transition period between King Mu and King Uija, or the reign of King Uija. Their grounds are in the records of the King Taejong Muyeol dynasty in the Silla Bongi of Samguksagi. The records read "Water turned into blood in the well of Daegwansa. The blood flew over the land of Geummagun in the width of five bos." However, it is difficult to say that the records reflect the reality of the times. It is chronologically recorded that the roof tiles excavated at the Wanggung-ri relic and inscribed with the temple names related to Daegwansa were made after Silla's integration of the Three Kingdoms. It is considered that Daegwansa was built during the reign of King Sinmun in Silla. A royal palace of Baekje was located in the Geummajeo area, which was the center of Bodeokguk and a political and military base conquered and incorporated into Silla. It is estimated that the drifting people and Buddhist monks of Goguryeo and Baekje participated in the revolt of people inside the Bodeok fortress. Silla must have paid more attention to the rule of this area after the revolt. One of their measures was to change the use of the royal palace, which was a symbolic space of Baekje and Bodeokguk in Geummajeo, into a Buddhist temple. Silla thus built Daegwansa. The records about Daegwansa and Geummajeo in Samguksagi were written before the death of King Taejong Muyeol. It indicates that Samguksagi considered Geummajeo and Daegwansa as a historical place to represent the death of King Taejong Muyeol who symbolized the consciousness of the unification of Three Hans and Silla's integration of Baekje and Goguryeo through the unification of Three Hans(integration of Three Kingdoms). It is likely that Silla broadly promoted the consciousness of the unification of Three Hans," which says "People of Three Hans can no longer worry about cold and hunger thanks to Silla's unification of Three Hans," stated in the Wooncheon-dong Memorial Stone of Cheongju and the Yujo of King Munmu by building Daegwansa, thus settling the public sentiment among the drifting people of Baekje and Goguryeo. These findings suggest that Silla's construction of Daegwansa was one of its policies to integrate the Three Kingdoms by reflecting the consciousness of the unification of Three Hans.