고려시대 만덕산 백련사의 차문화연구

A Study on Baekryunsa Temple's Tea Culture In Goryeo Dynasty

Baekryunsa Temple was first built by Great Monk Mooyeom of the ancient Silla Dynasty and produced a lot of revered great monks, such as eight greatest monks(Palguksa in Korean) in the Goryeo Dynasty and eight other greatest monks(Paljongsa in Korea) in the Chosun Dynasty. These esteemed monks handed down their own tea culture to their successors, and their legacy of tea culture played an important role in cultivating the tea culture in the later years of the Chosun Dynasty. This study have examined the tea culture more deeply and in detail by focusing on materials relating to Baekryunsa Temple in Manducksan mountain and literary documents left behind by those greatest monks. In this thesis, I have reviewed the historic origin and tea culture of Baekryunsa Temple and its unique tea style and reached the following conclusion. Baekryunsa Temple's tea culture had made a significant progress alongside the Buddhist Culture since the Goryeo Dynasty and, especially in the later Chosun Dynasty. Ahamhyejang and his Buddhist pupils were pivotal to the modernization of Buddhist and tea culture. Despite its ideological disconnection, the unique tea style at Baengnyeonsa Temple, marked by 'comfort' by Jeongmeyongguksa in the Goryeo Dynasty and 'honest poverty' by Jinjeongguksa were transferred to 'idleness, pleasure and beauty' of the tea style of Ahamhyejang in a significant and renewed way. In conclusion, I hope more researchers would be able to go ahead with deeper and wider subsequent studies and uncover scattered bits of information related to tea culture and that put them together on a better systematic study. And I also hope such developments would open wide a new horizon for our tea culture through a new understanding and approach to our tea culture.