선원건축의 공간미학 - 해인사 上禪院을 중심으로

Abstract

Seon-won(禪院) construction which become the center of practice is quite different from general temple. Also, its spatial aesthetics is special. Recently, meditation center and temple-stay related buildings are built as a trend but plan and construction is different from each other and ambiguous because there are no criteria of buddhist for seon-won construction. So, first of all checked differences from Sang seon-won(上禪院) of Haeinsa about construction of special seon(禪) practice center. Sang seon-won(上禪院) with Whagae seon-won and Bongam-sa seon-won have something specialty in common and shares distinct characteristics. Seon-won construction is located in calm place, does not have painting as it's called skeleton-construction, four side of building is made up of doors and windows and forms corridor, has no any Buddhist image, or altar, or portrait inside, has minimized facilities related living , and yard is empty with no pagoda and belfry. Also there are no insect that disturbs practice and become natural environment that drives confusion away and its space is left as equal position. Specificity above is summarized from an aesthetic point of view as empty and fill, confinement and unclosing, cold and warm, tranquility and flow like waterfall. Seon-won(禪院) construction which of practice space is seen as building which should have buddhist ideology reflected in building and have environment that can uplift then spirit of practice. Seon-won(禪院) is the source of seon(禪) which tathata(眞如) is revealed entirely and space that holds core of buddhist practice. Let's put aesthetics in Seon-won(禪院) construction and bring it to our life space.