백담사 목조아미타불좌상 한글 발원문의 해석

Abstract

The wooden seated Amitabha Buddha statued costumes in Baekdamsa Temple have two Hangul prayers(hera after HP) which are one starting with “동부황참의ᄃᆞ리년화방거” HP(here after, Hwangchamuidari HP) and the other starting with “동부년화방황교거ᄒᆞᆫ” HP(here after, Hwanggyo HP). And there is a jeogori, Korean traditional jacket, in which Hangul is described among them. This article examines the phonology, morphology, syntax, and style of the text after reading and interpreting the two HPs by supplementing the Chinese characters. The reading and interpretation of the HP itself are important because few examples of the HP itself remain. The important linguistic characteristics of the two HPs are as follows. The orthography of the two Hangul prayers is quite conservative and does not show palatalized writing. The text in two HPs also shows an example of the verb ‘geochi-’ which means ‘get caught’ on one hand in terms of vocabulary and a typical grammatical phenomena which has prefinal ending –sᴧp- and –ass/ eoss-, ending -{o/ᴧp}syeo- in the 18th century Korean language in terms of grammar. In terms of style, text is used in a mixture of Chinese and native languages, but it also shows a unique style, such as functioning as a predicate with Chinese characters themselves.