진주 불교문화권역의 사찰과 인물 고찰 = A Study on the Famous Historical Temples and Monks Belonging to Jinju Cultural Area of Buddhism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, I researched the following contents.
I established Jinju cultural area of Buddhism at the historical view point. And researched the famous historical temples and monks who influenced on the following generations. As the result, I would like to offer general features of this area(Jinju cultural area of Buddhism).
This area includes four cities and eight counties belong to western Gyeongnam province.
The relative importance of this area in the position of Korean Buddhism, from past to present still had not been changed.
The history of this area was divided four periods, as it was, ancient times, the former middle age times, the later middle age times, and the times after modern age. I chose the famous 16 monks who were relative with this area, and researched their remarkable activities as the monk in the temples of this area.
Through this research, I summarized the five features and the present meanings of this area.
At first, ERSANBUMPAE(魚山梵唄), the representative Buddhism music of ancient Korea, was started from the SSNGGAE(雙磎) temple by zen monk JINGAM(眞鑑). Total present temple musics were came from this ERSANBUMPAE. Along to the this tradition, all the Buddhists of this area must make efficient use temple music for helping self discipline and spiritual enlightenment.
Second, during the period of united Silla dynasty, the female slave who was called the name of UKMYEON(郁面) was a devotee of Amitabha, her devoted efforts opened her the road to the heaven paradise. After her achievement, many devotees of Amitabha consistently appeared in this area. We must succeed to this tradition.
Third, except the example of female slave UKMYEON, during the later middle age times, the zen monk BUYONG YEONGGUAN(芙蓉靈觀) was born in slave, too. He went into the religion of Buddhism. And his devoted efforts opened him to reach the goal of great spiritual enlightenment. From these examples, we can know that the people of this area have the spirit of all people’s equality. We must succeed to this spirit.
Fourth, from ancient times to present ages, the tradition that tea spirit is equal with zen Buddhism thoughts[茶禪一如] was succeeded in this area. And many Buddhism disciplines gained great help through the tea drinking method. This area has very good conditions for good tea harvest. We must succeed to this tradition.
Fifth, among the famous 16 monks who were relative with this area, CHEONGHERHYUJEONG(淸虛休靜), CHEONGDAM SUNHO(靑潭淳浩), and HYODANG(曉堂) CHOIBUMSUL(崔凡述) had very strong spirit for safeguarding of our country against enemies attack. We must succeed to this tradition.