『법학경』 오종법사행의 고찰 -특히 서사행을 중심으로- = Study of the Five Kinds of Dharmabhanaka Practices of the Lotus Sutra

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Among the known practices of Mahayana Buddhism's unique religious form, most can be traced back to early Buddhism, so in fact, there are few things that have unique characteristics of Mahayana Buddhism. However, belief in the sutra scriptures can be said to be a characteristic unique to Mahayana Buddhism, because the act of believing in materialized sutras is a characteristic that can only appear in sutras established on a written culture, and cannot appear in the sutras of early Buddhism that had an oral culture as its background. This paper focuses on the reason why early sutras based on an oral culture developed into Mahayana sutras based on a written culture, by focusing on the introduction of writing into the Indian world by Ashoka and the differences in the media between oral and written forms. Furthermore, by focusing on the Lotus Sutra, the representative scripture of sutra faith, and the five types of Buddhist practices that appear in the scripture, especially the narratives, I attempted to argue that the copying of letters, which is generally known, was not introduced to spread the sutra, but rather was a media strategy for complete concentration on the sutra.