정토신앙 공동체와 향가

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to inquire the process of the development of Hyangga with a relation to the Buddhist communists in the Shinla Dynasty. Like any other genres of Korean classical songs and poetry Hyangga has originated from the folk songs. In the process of forming the style, Hyangga has been rooted on the Buddhist community as a song for propagation of religion and ritual. The majority of Buddhist communists in the Shinla Dynasty were the communists for the Pure Land Faith, which showed the speciality of Mahayana Buddhism in that period. Among the believers who pursued the Pure Land, Hyangga was enjoyed as a way of ascetic exercises or religious confession. This paper categorized the types of Buddhist communists shown in Hyangga and following prose writings into three parts; the type of good deed, ascetic exercise and supermundane. Basically each type of community could be differentiated by the religious perseverance of ascetics. This paper calls the question each type of community shows the representative way of ascetic exercise in each period of the Shinla Dynasty.