『고려사절요(高麗史節要)』의 범례와 불교 기사 수록 방식

Abstract

At the stage of Goryeosajeolyo, the legend was first introduced, which recorded the first visit of each king and incident events as it was cumbersome to record all the events of the temple, Buddhist initiation ceremony of receiving the commandments of Buddhism, and offering donations to temples, all of which was the ordinary work of the king at the time. In Goryeosajeolyo, in addition to the actual record of the visit to temples, the sentence “[He] frequently visited the temple from this point on” was added to clearly indicate that this was the first visit, and 13 of the total 34 Kings were in such case. As Goryeosajeolyo had a system in which the year following the accession to the throne is used as the first year to calculate the year, most of the records of first visit were recorded after the first year of the King’s reign, not the year of accession. The visit to the temple at this time was “the king’s daily affairs at that time,” and ceremonies such as Yeondeunghoe and Palgwanhoe and the temple visit for the parents’ Gisindoryang were not included. Despite the fact that the sentence that describe the first visit to the temple by King Munjong was recorded after “only one’s own opinion,” even though there was a content that could be considered a visit to temple in Goryeosajeolyo during the periods of Deokjong and Jeongjong, which was right before that, there is no sentence after “only one’s own opinion.” In addition, there were quite a few cases where the legend was not accurately observed, which was supposed to record the first visit in the Goryeosajeolyo. This was explained as the historians in charge of this royal dynasty did not follow the generally agreed-upon recording method despite that the legend existed. The article on the first visits of King Chungryeol and King Gongmin during the intervention period by the Yuan Dynasty confirmed the characteristics of the times where the Kings visited the temple with the princess of Yuan Dynasty, not alone. In addition, the fact that there were three types of sentences stating, “[He] frequently visited the temple from this point on,” makes it clear that each historian in charge was able to freely decide the content and method. It is also mentioned that historians in charge of each royal family can be divided into several groups based on such recording method of the first visit to temples.