Educational Meaning of Venerable Jingams Life in Later Silla Era

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to investigate Venerable Jingam(眞鑑)s life from the view of the education. The reason why I paid attention to the life of the Venerable monk is for his educational carrier and is not for his native ability. The Venerable monk is not to be born in a Venerable monk state since he was born. He become a Venerable monk through a process of the education. So I am interested for Venerable monk life. A Venerable monk is an intellectual person of the time and is an ideal educator of the time. We can understand what is ideal teacher of later Silla period, and what is educational model through the life of Venerable Jingam. This article is comprised of three chapters except a preface and a conclusion. I studied the process of birth of the Venerable Jingam and the life of the period of growth in Chapter 2 of the article. I considered a process of the training after having become a priest in Chapter 3 and considered the life as the educator of the Buddhism in Chapter 4. I summarized the educational meaning of the Venerable Jingams lifetime with six kinds by a conclusion as follows. It is first and points it out for the importance of parents and domestic environment. Second, The Venerable monk brought up their intelligence through studying abroad. The studying abroad was one of the learning processes that most Venerable monk of the later Silla Era. Third, Venerable Jingam utilized chanting the sutra text as a method of the education. This was the educational method that was very rare in Silla. Forth, Venerable Jingam became a master of the king(國師), and this means that Buddhism had a big influence on the education of the national leader like king. Fifth, as for the educational activity of the Venerable Jingam, we must pay attention to the point that had an influence on the local education and common people education. Sixth, Life and the educational activity of Venerable Jingam has a important meaning at the side of the Buddhist intellectual history in Silla era.