사명지례의 대비참법과 그 사상적 근거에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This study is on Siming Zhili’s Great Compassion Repentance (大悲懺法) which is known to influence the formation of Sutra of the Guanyin with a Thousand hands and eyes (千手經) for reading in Korean Buddhism. In Song-dynasty, Zhili had interpreted Thousand hands and eyes Guanyin Sutra within Tiantai’s samatha-vippassana of perfection and sudden (天台圓頓止觀), and wrote Great-Compassionate Heart Incantation Practices of the Guanyin with a Thousand hands and eyes (千手眼大悲心呪行法). In the writing, he constituted the repentance practice of ten items called Great Compassion Repentance based on the Sutra. Great Compassion Repentance belongs to the non-walking and non-sitting samadhi (非行非坐三昧) in Four-samadhi same as the Requesting Guanyin Repentance (請觀音懺法) formed by Tiantai Zhihi (天台 智顗). In the Sutra, Zhili had focused on the sixteen-wishes which had to been practiced before reciting Great-Compassionate Heart Dhāraṇī and on the nine-images of the dharani which was said after reciting the dharani. He realized to correspond the front ten-wishes (十願) to contemplation in ten vehicles (十乘觀法) of Tiantai’s practice. It means that ten-wishes are not only aspirations but also paths to Enlightenment from the point of view of Tiantai-order. In addition, Great-Compassionate Heart Dhāraṇī itself and the nine-images of the dharani had been matched with the contemplation in ten vehicles. Therefore, the practice centered on simply reciting Great-dharani of that Sutra got changed to Repentance of samadhi by Siming Zhili.