高麗時期 寺院의 金屬 消費 ‒ 銅 使用 佛敎 工藝品을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Diverse crafts were made by having metal as a material during the Goryeo period. What possesses important position and emphasis out of it is a metal craft related to Buddhism. Therefore, the Buddhist world can be said to be the important entity that consumes a metal in those days. There were many kinds of metals that were used in making Buddhist crafts. Gold, silver, copper, and iron were representative. Copper was what was most used in making Buddhist crafts among these things. Copper was spent the tremendous quantity in making Buddhist temple bell, metal drum, incense burner and others. Copper is considerably used in producing Buddhist crafts, thereby having greatly influenced the national economy. Examining based on the existing materials, copper, which was consumed in Buddhist temple bell, metal drum and incense burner, is estimated to be about 250,000kg. Considering what was made again with being damaged, much more copper would be used actually than this. Figuring out the trend that metal crafts were made by period, the early 12th century is most inferior either in quantity or in the whole weight of relics. This seems to be accredited to having minted coins by using copper in more than 70,000kg during the period of king Sukjong at this time. It was very insufficient quantity for distributing coins. Nevertheless, using a great quantity of copper brought about the lack of copper. As a result, a minority of crafts such as Buddhist temple bell, metal drum and incense burner seem to have been made. If the nation consumes a large quantity of copper, it comes to be difficult to secure the quantity that is required by temples. On the contrary, if the temples spend a large quantity, the quantity that will be used by a nation comes to be less. In this way, a temple and a nation in the Goryeo period can be considered to have shown the antagonistic relationship surrounding the use of copper.