10~11세기 中國과 韓國의 佛塔 내 봉안 『寶篋印經』 재고 (Rethinking the Dhāraṇī Sūtra of the Precious Casket Seal Enshrined in Chinese and Korean Buddhist Pagodas from the Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 이화여자대학교 이화사학연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 이화사학연구 / 62호 / 1 ~ 42페이지
· 저자명 : 이승혜

초록

Buddhism was a vehicle, which connected many states that thrived on the Chinese continent and the Korean peninsula in the tenth and eleventh centuries. A short text, entitled Sūtra of the Dhāraṇī of the Precious Casket Seal of the Concealed Complete-body Relics of the Essence of All Tathāgatas, provides us a window to look into the material and devotional culture of Buddhism developed into diverse forms across East Asian continent. It was transmitted from South Asia to China and translated into Chinese by the Indian monk Amoghavajra in the early eighth century. It was circulated and put into practice in Chang’an and in the region of Mount Wutai where Amoghvajra was active but it seems not to have been known in the Jiangnan region until the beginning of the tenth century. It gained wide popularity in the Jiangnan region only after the last king of Wuyue Kingdom reproduced it three times on a massive scale in the late tenth century. The printing project and dissemination of the xylograph copies spurred a widespread circulation of the text and renewed interest in the cult of textual relics across the Chinese continent and Korean peninsula beyond political borders in the tenth and eleventh centuries. This study re-examines historical implications of the Wuyue “re-discovery” of this text, while closely looking at material forms of this text from Wuyue, Northern Song, Koryŏ, and Khitan that constituted a multi-centered yet closely connected Buddhist cultural sphere in this time. For example, although the patron of the earliest Koryŏ edition of the sūtra dated it by using the Khitan reign name, the overall composition of the xylograph including the frontispiece points to the first Wuyue edition of the text as its prototype. This alone is enough to show the multivalence of cultural exchanges apart from the tributary system or official envoys.

영어초록

Buddhism was a vehicle, which connected many states that thrived on the Chinese continent and the Korean peninsula in the tenth and eleventh centuries. A short text, entitled Sūtra of the Dhāraṇī of the Precious Casket Seal of the Concealed Complete-body Relics of the Essence of All Tathāgatas, provides us a window to look into the material and devotional culture of Buddhism developed into diverse forms across East Asian continent. It was transmitted from South Asia to China and translated into Chinese by the Indian monk Amoghavajra in the early eighth century. It was circulated and put into practice in Chang’an and in the region of Mount Wutai where Amoghvajra was active but it seems not to have been known in the Jiangnan region until the beginning of the tenth century. It gained wide popularity in the Jiangnan region only after the last king of Wuyue Kingdom reproduced it three times on a massive scale in the late tenth century. The printing project and dissemination of the xylograph copies spurred a widespread circulation of the text and renewed interest in the cult of textual relics across the Chinese continent and Korean peninsula beyond political borders in the tenth and eleventh centuries. This study re-examines historical implications of the Wuyue “re-discovery” of this text, while closely looking at material forms of this text from Wuyue, Northern Song, Koryŏ, and Khitan that constituted a multi-centered yet closely connected Buddhist cultural sphere in this time. For example, although the patron of the earliest Koryŏ edition of the sūtra dated it by using the Khitan reign name, the overall composition of the xylograph including the frontispiece points to the first Wuyue edition of the text as its prototype. This alone is enough to show the multivalence of cultural exchanges apart from the tributary system or official envoys.

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