통일신라시대의 寺志 편찬

On the Publication of the Saji(寺志) in Unified Silla

This paper is about the Saji(寺志: which is to record the history of temple) which thought to be published in Unified Silla. In the Saji, there are a lot of information such as establishment of temples, history of their renovations, the motivation to construct statues of buddha and pagodas, the miracles people experienced and the contributions of the High Monks. The editors of the Saji are emphasizing the tradition while they arrange the history of temples. Secondly, the editors made the purport of their religion clear through the record of High Monks contributions and miracles of faith and also to emphasize the characteristics of uniqueness. The background to publish the Saji is as follow. First of all, each and every diverse Schools (or temples) had to exhibite convinsinly their contention since there were many other Schools (or temples) sprang in Unified Silla. Secondly, the buddhists needed to be explained about the history of their temples as well as the traditions of their faith as each temples' history were lasting for a long time and expanding too with more followers. Therefore the main two reasons to publish the Saji were, first to showthe superiority of their schools (or temples) then others by emphasizing historical tradition, second to inspire the followers' faith by emphasizing some miracles of the religion. Publishing the Saji in Unified Silla is to record the history of each temples however it is more then that and very meaningful since it enabled to understand the flow of buddhistic history in Unified Silla. As a result, it is very significant in history of historiography since the buddhistic history in Unified Silla takes very big part in a history.