| Title |
A Legend of Temple Construction: Narrative Way to Input Sacredness to Buddhist Temple |
| Keywords |
Legend ; Buddhist Temple ; Sacredness ; Sacrifice |
| Abstract |
Many Korean traditional Buddhist temples have legends related with their temples' construction which comes down for a long time. The legend on the temple construction is one of the ways to input sacredness which architecture could not self-generate, to Buddhist temple. Background why the Buddhist temple built on the site are included in these legends, such that the temple site was the land where Buddha had been stayed at in the past, or where miracle had been appeared at the site, or supreme being had been assigned for that site. Within these legends, order of space had been acquired through religious fighting against heretic or evil dragon which occupied holy space, and sacredness of Buddhist temple had been supplemented by Buddha or Bodhisattva's help in the process of temple construction. Story of life sacrifice and death appeared in these legends is a narrative way to add permanent sacredness to Buddhist temple. A legend on temple construction is up?ya (tool) that choose a particular region in this world and declare Buddhist temple a sacred space. |