佛國寺創建說話 硏究

Abstract

Even though we may have studies on Bulguksa by the hundreds, there is not nearly the same number of studies on the legend of Bulguksa. Based on those studies, we have concluded the following. First, when the King Hyegong was enthroned, Kim Dae Seong was established as the founder of Bulguksa, but the last name of Dae Seong (the great castle) has been proved not to be a real name but a false name derived from the name of the town, Daeseong. Second, it has been proved that the rebirth story of Kim Dae Seong originated from the birth story of Jukjirang, where the soul of an ascetic that Jukjirang's father, Suljong-gong, met on the Jukjiryeong Hill entered Jukjirang’s mother, who then displayed signs of pregnancy and eventually gave birth to Jukjirang, and the rebirth myth of Seoktalhae, who entered a tomb on the mountain Tohamsan and became a King afterwards. Third, the story where Daeseong hunted a bear on the Toham and had a dream where he met the bear that night is concluded to be a compound story fusing the bear dream story as a birth symptom of a baby boy with the actual story that he murdered a man as the baby boy. Fourth, when we consider the statements above, Kim Dae Seong proves that Kim Yang Sang murdered King Hyegong and came to the throne as the King Seondeok (?~785) afterwards. Fifth, it is concluded that the legends of Bulguksa and Seokgulam were constructed to explain the birth of a baby boy, the King Hyegong (758~780).