Lee Ho Seob The Land of Buddha, Namsan
Lee Ho Seop The Land of Buddha, Namsan
์ดํธ์ญ ๋ถ์ฒ์ ๋ , ๋จ์ฐ
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The Land of Buddha, Namsan People of Silla believed that the spirit of the Buddha came down from the sky and dwelled in the rock. It was because of such belief that they carved Buddha on Namsan rock where their founding myths were transmitted and dreamed of Land of Buddhism. However, from some point of time, people forgot that dream, and then, they started turning their backs on the land of desire, one by one. Now, a thousand years have passed, and in the deserted forests of Namsan, the pagodas and Buddha statues worn out by the wind and weathered are standing indifferently as if they were Buddhas or as if they were rocks. ๋ถ์ฒ์ ๋ , ๋จ์ฐ
์ ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ถ์ฒ์ ์(้)์ด ํ๋์์ ๋ด๋ ค์ ๋ฐ์์ ๊น๋ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ฑด๊ตญ ์ ํ๊ฐ ์ ํด์ค๋ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ถ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ถ๊ตญํ ๋ฅผ ๊ฟ๊พผ ๊ฑด ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฏฟ์ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ธ์ ๋ถํฐ์ธ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ทธ ๊ฟ ์ ์์ ์ฑ ์ผ์์ ๋ ์ ํ๋๋ ๋ฑ์ง๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ฒ๋ ์ ์ธ์ ์ด ํ๋ฅธ ์ง๊ธ, ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ ๋งํ ์ฒ์์๋ ๋น๋ฐ๋์ ๊น์ด๊ณ ์ธ์์ ๋ง๋ชจ๋ ํ๊ณผ ๋ถ์์ด ๋ฐ์์ธ ๋ฏ ๋ถ์ฒ์ธ ๋ฏ ๋ฌด์ฌํ ์ ์๋ค.
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์ดํธ์ญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ โ ๊ธฐ๋ก๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ด์์
์ดํธ์ญ ์๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ ์ฃผ์๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๊ฐ ์ ์๋ค. ๋, ๋ฐ์, ์๋ถ, ๋ถํ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์ ์ํ์ง ์์ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์๋ ๋ฌด๊น์ง๋ฅผ ํฉํ๋ค๋ฉด ํ์คํ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ชฐ์ ํด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ช ํ ๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ ๋ผ ์ฒ๋ ์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ฑ์๋๋ ์๋ง์ ์ ์ค๊ณผ ์ ํ, ๋ถ๊ต์ ์ญ์ฌ ์ ์ ์ ์์ํ ์ง๊ฒฐ์ง ๋ผ ํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ ์ธ์๋ค์ ๋์น์ง ์๋ ์ด์ ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ ๋ถํฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋์๋ ์ผ๋ง์ ๋ถ์๊ณผ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ ๋งํ์ง ์์ ์ ์์๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ฌ์ง ์ผ๋ก ํํํ๋ค๋ ๊ฑด ์ ๋ ํธ๋ฝํธ๋ฝํ ์ผ์ด ์๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๋ น๋ก์ง ์์์ ๊ฐ๋ฑํ๊ณ , ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ , ๋ฒ๋ฏผํ ๊ฒ ๋ ์ด ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ด ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฃผ์ , ์์ฌ, ๋์์ผ๋ก์ ๋ น๋ก์ง ์์ ์ด์ ๋ ํฌ ๊ฒ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ๋ณด์ธ๋ค.
์ฒซ์งธ๋ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋์์ผ๋ก์ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๊ทธ ํน์ฑ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ค์ฌ์ ๋๊ฑฐ๋ ํํ์ ์ค์ฌ์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์๊ตฌํ๋ค. ์ฆ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํด์ผ ํ๋ ๋์์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ฏ๋ก ๋ค์๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ถ๋ช ์น ์์ผ๋ฉด ํ๊ณต์ ๋ ๋ ์๋ฐ์ ์๋ค. ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ ์ ๋ค์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๋์์ธ ๋์์ ์์ ์ ํํ ๋์์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ๋ ์ง๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ฉํ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฒ ์ฐฌ ๋์์ด๋ค. ์์ปจ๋ ๊ธฐ ๋ก ์ค์ฌ์ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ด๊ตฌ์ ๋จ์ฐ ์ฌ์ง์์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๊ณ , ํํ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ๋ณ์ฐ์ ๋จ์ฐ ์ฌ์ง์์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค. ๋์งธ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ์คํ ๋ฆฌํ ๋ง(์ฝ์ ํธ)์ ๋ณต์กํจ์ด๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ด ๋ ์ ์ ํ์ ์คํ์ ์ฐ๋งฅ์ด๋ค. ์ ์ฌ์๋ ์ด๋ ํ๊ณผ ์น์ฑ์ ๋ฌด์(๋ฏผ๊ฐ)์ ์์ ์์ฒด์ผ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์ฒ๋ ์ ๋ผ ๋ถ๊ตญํ ์ ์๋์ผ๋ก์ ์ ๋ น, ๋ถ์ฑ, ๋ถ์ฌ์ ์กด์ฌ๋ค์ด ํ๋ฐ ๋ชจ์ธ ๊ณณ์ด๋ค. ํ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋๋ ํ ํ ์ ์ ๋ น๋ค์์๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ผ ๊ฑด๊ตญ์ ์ ํ์ ์คํ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์ ๋ถ๊ตญํ ๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ๋ ์์ฒ ๋ ์ ์๊ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ ํด ๋ด๋ ค์จ ์ ํ์ ์คํ ์ ์คํ ๋ฆฌํ ๋ง๊น์ง ํผ์ฌํ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ถ์ด ์ ๋ ์ฝ์ง ์๋ค.
์ ์งธ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์งํ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ ์ฌ์ง์ ํ์์ ๋์ ์ด๋ค. ์ด ๋ฌธ ์ ๋ ์์ ์ฌ์ง์์ ๋์ฑ ์ฌ๊ฐํ๋ค. ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์๋ ์์ฌ๋ค์ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊น๋ค๋กญ์ง ์๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊ป ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ฐ์ด ์๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋งํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ น ๋, ๋ฐ์, ์๋ถ, ๋ถํ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ฌ์ง์ผ ๋๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ง ์์ผ๋ ์์ ์ฌ ์ง์ผ ๋๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๊ตฌ๋, ์ต๊ธ, ๋์คํด์ค ์ฝํธ๋กค์์ ์ด๋ ค์์ด ํฌ๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋น์ทํ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ๋ณด๋ค ์งํ์ , ์ฌ์ง์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๊น๋ค๋กญ๊ณ ์ด๋ ต๋ค.
์ด ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง ์ด์ ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ฐ์๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ๋ค ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๋ค. ์ดํธ์ญ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์ด๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ, ์ฆ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ข ๊ต์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ค์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์ด์ ๋ฌด๊ดํ๊ฒ ๋์์ผ๋ก์ ์์ ์ ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์ด๋ ํํ๋ฏธํ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ์์ญ ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ฐฐํํ ๋์ ๋ด๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ฌ์ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ๋ง์ ๋ ํนํ ์ ๊ทผ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ดํธ์ญ ์๊ฐ ์ญ์ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๋๊ณ ๋ฒ๋ฏผํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ํ ์์ ์ ์ค๋ ๊ฒฝํ, ์ค์ , ํ์ต์ ๊ฒฐ ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ฌ์ง๊ณผ ํํ ์ฌ์ง์ ์ ํ ์ง, ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ง ์ง์์ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ง์ ์ ํ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ ํ ์์์ธ ์ฌ์ง์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ๋ ์ฌ์ง ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ผ๊ด๋๊ฒ ๋ชฐ์์น๋ ๋ฏธํ์ ์ ํ์ง์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋์ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ค์ค๋ก ์๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค.
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๊ทธ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ทธ์ <๋ถ์ฒ์ ๋ , ๋จ์ฐ>์ ์ด์ ์์์ด๋ค. ๋ ์คํจ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๋จ์์ผ ์์ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ๋์ ๋ค๊ณผ์ ๋ง๋๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ํ์ต์ ๊ธธ, ์์ ๊ธธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฌ์ง์ ๊ธธ ์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์์๋ถ์ ์ป์ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ์ ํฐ ์ฐ๋งฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋์์ด๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ์ธ์ ์์ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ํด๋ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋๋ค. ์ดํธ์ญ ์๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ฐ์๋ ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฉดํ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ์์ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ๋ ๋๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ถํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฉ๋ คํ๋ค. ํนํ ๊ทธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์์ ์ฃผ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ๋ฌด์ํ ์ ํ์ ์คํ, ๋ถ๊ต ์ด์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ค์์ธ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์์ โ๋ถ์ฒโ๋ง์ ๋์์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ผ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฃผ๋ชฉ์ฑ์ด๋ค. ๋ํ โ๋โ์ ๊ณตํต์ ๋งค๊ฐ์ฒด๋ก ํ์ฌ ํธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์น์ฑ์ ๋ฐ ์, ์๋ถ, ๋ถํ๋ง์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ์ผ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง ์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ฑ๊ณผ ํํ์ฑ์ ๊ต์งํฉ์ ๋ชจ์ํ ๋ ค ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์๋ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ด ๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋ถ๋ช์ณ ํ ์ด๋ณด๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์์ธ์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ฌ์ง์ ๊ธธ์์ ์๊ณผ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ฑ์ฐฐยท์ฑ์ยท์ ์ฑํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด๋ค. ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ฒ์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์์ ๋ ๋งํด์ฃผ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ์ ์์ฅ์ ์ฌ์ง์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์ ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ์๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ผ๋ ์ฌ ์ค๋ ๋งํด์ฃผ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ์์ ๊ทธ์ ์ ํ์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น โ๋ถ ์ฒโ์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ, โ๋โ์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ํตํด ์ ์ฒด ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ์ค์ํ ๊ด๊ณ๋ง์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ญ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์์ ์ ํํ์ฑ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ค. ์์ ์ํ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ๋๋ โ์ค๋ช ์ด ํ ์ ์๋โ ์ฌ์ง ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ถํ์ด ์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์ฌ์ง ์์ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ ์ฐ์ด ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์๊ฐ ์ดํธ์ญ์ด ๋ณด์ฌ์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฐธ ์ด๋ ค์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ถํ ์ฌ์ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค. ๋ฐ์์ ์๋ถ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๋์คํด์ค๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ค์์ด ์๋ค. ๋ฏธํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฅ๋์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ณด ๋ค๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์๋์ ์ธ ๋ชจ์ต์ด๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์๋ค์ด ๋ ๋ฆฝ์ฒด๊ฐ ์ ๋๊ณ ํํ ๋ฐ ํ์๋ค์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ฑ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋จ์ด์ง๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ น, ์๊ตญ์ ์ค ํคํจ์ง๋ ์ด์ฃผ์ฌ์ ์๋ถ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์งํ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด, ํ์์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ์ ๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์์ ์๋ฒฝ์ ๊ตฌ๋ถํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต๊ณ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ๋ณด ๋ค๋ ํ๋ฉด์ฑ์ด ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ด ํน์ง์ด๋ค. ์ด ๋๋ฌธ์ ์์ ๋ฏธํ์ผ๋ก ์นํ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ๊น๋ค๋กญ๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ฉด์, ๋ถํ์ ๋น๊ต์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ด๋ ์ ์ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ด ์๋๋ผ ์๊ฐ์ ๋์คํด์ค๊ฐ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ๊ณ ์ ํ ์ต๊ธ ๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ ํฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ณด์ธ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ด๋ค. ์์ ์ํ์ด๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ์ ๋์คํด์ค, ์ ์, ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์ด ์ํ ์์ ๋๋ฌ๋ ๋ ์ํ์ฑ์ ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ค. ์ดํธ์ญ ์๊ฐ๋ ์ง๊ธ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์์์ ๊ฐ๋ฑํ๊ณ ๋ฒ๋ฏผํ๋ฉฐ ํ์ตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ ๋คํํ ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ถํ์ ๊ทธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์์น, ๋ฐฉํฅ์ด ์ ์ฐ ํด์ ๋ฐ์๋ ์๋ถ๋ณด๋ค ์๊ฐ์ ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋ฏธ์ ํ์๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ค ์ด ์๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด๋ค. ๋ค์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฃผ ๋จ์ฐ์ ๋ น๋ก์ง ์์ ์์ฌ์ด๊ณ ๋์ ์ด๋ค. ์์ฐ๋ ์๊ณ ๋ฌด์๋ ์๊ณ ๋ถ๊ต๋ ์๊ณ ์ญ์ฌ๋ ์๋ ํ๋ฏผ์กฑ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฐ๋งฅ์ด๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ก์ฌ์ง์ธ์ง ์์ ์ฌ์ง์ธ์ง ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํด์ผ ํ๊ณ , ๊ด ๊ฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ์๊ฒ ํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๋๋ผ๊ฒ ํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํด์ผ ํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ ์ฑ ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ ์ธ ํํ์ ์์ ์ฑ์ ์์ธ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์ธ์ง, ์ฃผ์ง์ ๊ต์ก์ฑ์ ์์ธ์ด ๊ฒ์ธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ํด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์ด ์ด์ฒด์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ์ด๋ฒ ์ ์์ ์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ์์ <๋ถ์ฒ์ ๋ >์ ์๊ฐ ์์ ์ ํฅํ ๋ฌผ์์ด๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ ์์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฌป๋ ๋ฌผ์์ด๊ณ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ฑ์ด๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ ๋ฐฉํฅ ํค์ด๊ณ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํ์ต์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ง์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ ์๋ก ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฐจ์์ ํ์์ธ ๋งํผ, ์ฌ์ง์ ํ๋ฉด์ ์์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ ๊ธธ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฒ๋ฏผ์ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ํ๋๋๋ค๊ณ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ ์ด ์ดํธ์ญ์ ์ฌ์ง์ ํฌ๋ง ์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ ์ด์ ๋ค.
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Gyeongju Namsan โ between Record and Sense Photographer Yi Ho Seop showed me Gyeongju Namsan portfolio, into which he put a lot of effort. In the portfolio, there were several images composing Gyeongju Namsan. Stones, rocks, stone Buddha, pagoda, and if pine tees of Namsan, which were not included in this exhibition, it was clear that he was immersed in Gyeongju Namsan. Gyeongju Namsan is called the treasure of the thousand years of history of Silla. Also, it is called the vivid collection of numerous legends and myth, which were most sacred, and Buddhism and historical remains. It is the reason that he does not miss the partial elements composing Gyeongju Namsan. But, before seeing the portfolio, and also after seeing it, I had to tell some anxiety and worry. Because it is never easy to express Gyeongju Namsan with photograph. It is also the reason that many previous photographers had conflicts, agonized, and tormented with such difficulty. It seems that there are mainly three reasons that Gyeongju Namsan is not easy as the theme, material, and target of photograph. First, it is because of the characteristics as the target for photograph. Gyeongju Namsan requires the focus on the record or expression due to its characteristics. That is, it is the target that must be clarified. Therefore, if they are mixed or unclear, it is bound to become vague. The remains of Namsan are the targets with their grounds in the historical fact, and at the same time, they also have the characteristics of being the target of artistic expression. Thus, it is a target too difficult to handle both and accept them all. For example, you can see the case of focusing on the record in Gang Woon Guโs Namsan photograph, and the case of focusing on the expression in Bae Byeong Wooโs Namsan photograph.
Second, it is because of the complexity of the temporality and story telling (concept) of Gyeongju Namsan. Gyeongju Namsan is the repository of this landโs myth and folk tales. Since the prehistoric times, it is not only the main point of shamanism (civilian) faith for power and devotion, but also, it is the cradle of thousand years Silla Buddhism, where the beings of Buddhism spirit, nature, and mercy are gathered together. From the spirits of totems relied on heaven, through founding myth and folk tales of Silla, and to the myth and folk tales that came down with the temporality of thousands of years completing Buddhism country, they are all mixed, so it is never easy to express. Third, it is because of the geographical conditions of Gyeongju Namsan and the dilemma of photographic activity. This problem is more critical in artistic photograph. It is very difficult to artistically approach the material composing Namsan. Until now, all photographers who took the pictures of Namsan tell about the same difficulty. For example, stones, rocks, stone Buddha, and pagoda are not big issues for record photograph, but for artistic photograph, photographers have many difficulties in aesthetic composition, angle, and distance control. Gyeongju Namsan has more particular and difficult geographical and photographic conditions than other places with similar characteristics and material. Due to such three reasons, photographers who took or are taking the pictures of Gyeongju Namsan agonize over the methodology. It is the same for photographer Yi Ho Seop. Eventually, it is the concern for the first issue, That is, he must decide whether to take the photographs of Gyeongju Namsan focusing on the record based on religion and history, or irrelevantly, on artistic or expressional aesthetics. This is the conclusion that were made by many photographers after wandering around Gyeongju Namsan many years, and also the reason to end up wanting not too much. It is the unique approach only for Gyeongju Namsan. Photographer Yi Ho Seop also seems to be agonizing over this issue. Thus, this exhibition looks to me as the listing and organization of the outcomes of his long time experience, practice, and learning of Gyeongju Namsan. It looks to me that he is requiring himself and making up his mind on the listing and organization of the choice between record photograph and expressional photograph, choice between providing sense or knowledge, and the most important element, when it is an art piece, not just photograph, the choice of aesthetics consistently showing the photographerโs point of view and sense in the photographs.
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Due to such reasons, his <Land of Buddha, Namsan> is just a beginning. Another failure can be predicted, and it is predicted to face the dilemma that cannot end in short period of time. This is the way of learning and finding out, and in such road of photograph, one will be able to earn the nourishment of growth. Gyeongju Namsan is a target like a big mountain chain in Korean history. Therefore, it is not too much to say that photographer is facing a fight that can never end. Photographer Yi Ho Seop is standing in front of the issues that were faced by many photographers who took the pictures of Gyeongju Namsan.
On the other hand, pagoda seems to be relatively successful. Here, the success does not mean well taken, but it means that you can see the photographerโs distance and you can see the unique angle and directivity. You can win the value in art piece when the photographerโs aesthetic distance, tone, and esthetic sens are revealed in the piece. Photographer Yi Ho Seop seems to be having conflict, agonizing, and learning facing this issue, but fortunately, pagoda in Gyeongju Namsan has flexible structure, location, and direction, so it has the figure with sufficient smearing of the photographerโs aesthetic actions than rocks or stone Buddha.
But, I encourage his struggle. Especially, I pay attention to what he focused on in this exhibition. I pay attention that he made only โBuddhaโ as the target in Gyeongju Namsan where many myth, folk tales, and Buddhism stories are mixed. Also, I pay attention on the point that he made only the rocks, stone Buddha, and pagoda of defense of country and devotion as the target with โstoneโ as the common medium. And finally, I also pay attention to the point that he tried to seek the intersection of record and expression that all felt difficult. The attitude of trying to solve a dilemma which already has conclusion is the appearance of introspection, growth, and maturing of enlightenment and act in the road for photograph.
We go back to the beginning. Gyeongju Namsan is a difficult material and target. It is the repository of the time of Korean race with nature, shamanism, Buddhism, and also history. It must be clear whether it is record photograph or artistic photograph, whether you will provide knowledge or feeling to the viewers, and the bigger issue, whether it is the aesthetics with artistic expression or intellectual education. This holistic agonizing is in this exhibition. In such point, <Land of Buddha> is the question to photographer himself. It is the question to himself and directivity. This is the directional key to move forward, and it will be empirical learning. Taking photograph and photographing are different dimensional actions, so while photographing, the way to enlightenment can be said to be won in the process of having conflict, agonizing, and anguish. This is the reason that I see Yi Ho Seopโs photograph with hope.
I told him about these issues when I first saw the portfolio. And, I also told him that these are also the issues that may rise when the photographs are exhibited. With such points, his directivity of choice, which is about โBuddhaโ and about โstoneโ is important. This is important relational network of Gyeongju Namsan looking at the whole through parts. But, the issue is eventually the issue of artistic expression. When it is artistic piece, there shall be advent of photographer in the โneedless to explainโ photograph. You need to be able to see photographer Yi Ho Seop in the photograph, not Gyeongju Namsan. It is a very difficult thing. But, pagoda photographs show such possibility. It is difficult to secure aesthetic distance with rocks and stone Buddha. They are very passive figures rather than active, aesthetically. Basically, the targets are not independent, and the forms and shapes are not specific. For example, stonehenge of Britain and stone Buddha of Unju temple are in different geographical and figurative conditions. It is difficult to distinguish boulder and rock face in Gyeongju Namsan, and they have the characteristics of being more flat than three dimensional. With such reason, it is very difficult to make them as art aesthetics.
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Solo Exhibitions 2018 2016
The Land of Buddha, Namsan, ryugaheon, Seoul The Land of Buddha, Namsan, ryugaheon, Seoul
Groub Exhibitions 2017 The Land of Buddha, Namsan, KBS, Daegu 2016 Gallery H, Daegu Seokju, Daegu 2015 Tae Gallery, Daegu Jinju 2014 Bongsan, Daegu / Seoul ๊ฐ์ธ์ 2018 2016
๋ถ์ฒ์ ๋ , ๋จ์ฐ, ๋ฅ๊ฐํ, ์์ธ ์ฐ๋ ค์์. ๋๊ตฌ์๋ฏผ์์ ํ ๋งํํฌ ์ํธํ
2017 2016 2015 2014
ํ์ค๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ธฐ. KBS ๋๊ตฌ ์ฒญ์ถ์ด๋, Gallery H ๋์ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์ . ์์ฃผ์ฌ์ง๊ด ๊ณต๋ช ์ ๋ด๋ค. ํ๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๋ช ํ๋ค. ๋ฃจ์๋ค์ฌ์ง๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์ง์ฃผ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฝ๋ค. ๋ด์ฐ๋ฌธํํ๊ด/์ด๋ฃธ๊ฐค๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๋๊ตฌ/์์ธ
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NS02, 2016, archival pigment print, 90 x ฤ&#x2014;60 cm
Lee Ho Seop The Land of Buddha, Namsan 2018. 5. 8. ~ 5. 20. All Images ยฉ Lee Hoseop Texts ยฉ Jin Dong Seon, Lee Hoseop Catalogue ยฉ Lee Hoseop
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