Confucianism was the ruling principle in the Joseon dynasty and Buddhism was weakened because of suppressing Buddhistic rite and ceremony. Nevertheless, Jijang faith of Buddhist faith showed the characteristic which pray for the repose somebody's soul...
Confucianism was the ruling principle in the Joseon dynasty and Buddhism was weakened because of suppressing Buddhistic rite and ceremony. Nevertheless, Jijang faith of Buddhist faith showed the characteristic which pray for the repose somebody's soul and wished pass away peacefully, it had been consistently prosperous among the loyal and the public. For these reasons, related scripts to this religion 『Jijangbosalwongyeong』 were actively printed since early Joseon dynasty.
Especially, since 『Jijangbosalwongyeong』 was started 1449(15C), it was printed seven times in the year of 1450, 1453, 1462, 1469, 1474, 1494. Until now, the study on 『Jijangbosalwongyeong』 is going along in the field of Buddhist studies, History of Buddhist arts, Korean linguistics and Bibliography. But, only one study on the Material Bibliography has progressed in the Bibliography field, it also has its limit. Although printed at the same time, if it was printed reared apart, both forms and contents would be different. It is necessary to study on the Textual Bibliography by comparing to the original to understand among woodblock-printed books.
This study, therefore, was to clarify the characteristic and cement the relations among woodblock-printed books through analyzing Textual Bibliography by comparing to the original in the six woodblock-printed books, which was printed 15C and it was the total of seven. The results were following.
Firstly, four in six woodblock-printed books, which was published in 1450,1462,1469,1494, “此經 出大藏秘密經 橫字函” was found. I researched to identify the original through these records. 「Jijangbosalwongyeong」 which was embodied in the 『Hongmunamjang』 the completed collection of Buddhist Sutras of government office are the original of Korean woodblock-printed books.
Secondly, with 『Hongmunamjang』 compared to 6 woodblock-printed books, the distinct differences were founded each woodblock-printed book. Despite of short public period, misspelling, missing words, decreasing and increasing. It can draw some conclusions from comparing woodblock-printed books's textual.
1) To be specific, it came out that 『Hongmunamjaing』 seems to be less difference the rest of two books(published in 1453, 1474) than four books(it was recorded the original's source, published in 1450, 1462, 1269, 1494). Even though two books(published in 1453, 1474) weren't recorded the original's source, it showed that it were also engraved based on the 『Hongmunamjang』. Particularly, the book(published in 1474) was confirmed that it had most faithful to the original because there was the least difference among them.
2) According to the relationship with four books (it was recorded the original's source, published in 1450, 1462, 1269, 1494), there was same diffrence between the books(published in 1450 and 1462). It demonstrated that the book(published in 1450) had published first, after that, the book(published in 1462) was issued in Gangyeongddogam from same woodblock-printed book (published in 1450).
3) In addition, as time goes on, the books(published in 1450, 1462, 1469, 1494) made more differences with the origianl 『Hongmunamjang』. After 『Hongmunamjang』 passed down, the book(published in 1450, 1462) had been slightly modified based on it and then this revised content was complemented of the books(1469, 1494).