智異山의 仙界 표상과 표상화 방식 연구

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the process and method on how to make Jirisan symbols as Sun world(仙界), to trace projected intentions and desires of literary noblemen(士大夫文人) in those symbols. For this purpose, this paper used discussion with Jirisan Usangi(智異山 遊山記: travelogue of Jirisan) as the main text of analysis. The results will contribute to the next study on symbol and semantic process and method in Usangi. This study made it clear that the symbols of Sun world on Jirisan has long been made by travelers of Jirisan represented as masters and younger scholars of Yeongnam Sarim(嶺南士林: they were scholars in certain area of Korea). Despite the fact that Jirisan has little clues as the Bangjangsan(方丈山) of Sun world, Jirisan could be established as Sun world with Yeongnam Sarim’s long belief without any doubt. Here, the intention of Yeongnam Sarim, which tried to reveal the unique position of Jirisan in the composition of Samsinsan(三神山: they are three mountains in the legend of China), was strongly affected. In addition, the common consciousness of seeking the meaning of self-exploration through identification with the ancient sages and the desire for seclusion and unworldliness was also affected. However, Jirisan which has been established as Bangjangsan, has concrete life force through continuous encounter with Choi Chiwon as a master of Confucian recalling in the present and in process of realizing Cheonghakdong(which is a village in Jirisan). The other subjects who played an important role at this time were the monks who lived in the main temples of Jirisan, such as Sinheungsa and Ssanggyesa. They carried out the predecessor work of Jirisan in the same way that they made Geumgangsan(Mt. Geumgang) to Buddha land(佛國土). The travelers’ experience of living places enhanced by the monks is contributing to making Samsinsan(Bangjangsan) as not the reality in abstraction but the existing Sun world in the reality. And through this, Jirisan has be transformed into a living place where people can experience Sun world because Sinseons(神仙: kind of immortal) exist in Jirisan. This is difficult to identify at Geumgangsan or Hallasan, which can call the results and meaning of symbolization Jirisan to Sun world by YeongnamSarim such as Josic and his younger scholars.