신채호의 「龍과 龍의 大激戰」에 나타난 불교 무정부주의와 점복 신앙의 정치적 서사 양상에 대한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the political aspects of the Buddhist Anarchism and the divination of grassroots people in the 「The Fierce Strife between Two Dragons」(「龍과 龍의 大激戰」). The Shin- chaeho’s thought of the latter part is to be the Buddhist Anarchism. He lived as the monk in the early 1920s. After the chinese asylum, he used to be absorbed in the Buddhism scriptures -『The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana』and 『Vrimalakirti Sutra』- . He combined the Buddhism with the anarchism. He appreciated the limit of the modern thinking. He saw through the violence of the modern thinking. The modern thinking concealed the contraction of the capitalism and colonialism. So, he wished to deconstruct the structure of the modern thinking. He regarded the grassroots people as the subject of the revolution. The grassroots people had to the destructive power. They destroyed the authority of the modern thinking. As mentioned, Shin-chaeho wanted to combined the Buddhism with the grassroots people’s thinking. But practically, he found the project heavy going because of the realistic difficulty. So, he sought to write the fictional writing. The fictional writing provided the possibility for the imaginary community. These thoughts were reflected in the 「The Fierce Strife between Two Dragons」. The narrative characters in the 「The Fierce Strife between Two Dragons」were as follows. First, it reflected to eradicate the ill- fated relationship and a misdeed of the pre heaven. It wanted to destroy the structure of pre heaven, including the modern epoch. The King of kings(上帝) and the dragon(미르) are the symbol of the violence of the pre heaven. They used violence against grassroots people. Second, it expressed the sūnyada(空)of the nirātman-subject(無我-主體). the nirātman-subject indicated that the association of the grassroots people will be formed as the subversive subject. Because the nirātman-subject regarded the modern as the sūnyada(空), it overcomed the violence of the modern. the structure of pre heaven, including the modern epoch is not fixed but changeable according to the grassroots people’ degree of self-awarenes about the modern contradiction. Third, the nirātman-subject used counterviolence for the vimokşa(解脫). They didn’t admit the modern violence, engaged in aimed struggle for the post heaven. They disaffirmed the repression of pre heaven. Fourth, The eschatology in the 「The Fierce Strife between Two Dragons」was Divination and the curse of dragon. The grassroots people depended on the divination in their daily life. As we have seen, 「The Fierce Strife between Two Dragons」 demonstrated that the relation between the Buddhist Anarchism and the eschatology of the divination of grassroots people.