Korean Journal of Buddhist Studies ISSN:1598-0642(Print) 불교학연구

The objective of this research was to find out and show the buddhistic idea of Confucianist in the late Chosun Dynasty(朝鮮) period in Korea. The text 『BunChungseonanrok(奮忠舒難錄)』 is the book about the Buddhistic monk, Sa-myung(四溟) who took an active part in the war of Imjin(壬辰) the Japanese Forces invaded (1592). In other word, the book『BunChungseonanrok』has the contents of the records that Sa-myung negotiated with Chung-Jung(淸正), the Japanese General and the letters gave to some Japanese monks.The editor of this book is Yu-han Shin(申維翰1681-1739) who explained and commented about Sa-myung's brave and religious activities as well as published this book. He was born by cocubine in the late 17th century. So he was drawn a distriction and limited in entering into the political circles. In this manner he probably felt the sympathy concerning about the Buddhistic monks were badly discriminated in social station. Through publishing the book 『BunChungseonanrok』he intend -ed to change the fixed Buddhistic idea of the high-ranking confucianist, because he cannot advance to the high-ranking official. Moreover this paper show that Yu-han Shin' editting this book included the mental state and intention to protect and support the Buddhist circles restrined in Chosun Dynasty. In doing that, he would enhance the pride of the monks and this reason he selected representstive of the world of Buddhist, the very Sa-myung. In brief, this paper concluded that Yu-han Shin was the scholar who had the appreciative eye in Buddhism(especially Zen) in spite of the confucianist and he made a hard efforts in enhancing the status of Buddhists.