법응스님 소장 <법화경> 구결에 표시된 부독자(不讀字)

Abstract

In this paper the non-read characters, which means Chinese Characters not read by Kugyol reader’s translation into Korean, marked in Lotus Sutra of Beopeung’s collection are investigated. In this material, non-read marking character ‘不’ was used for vol. 1 and non-read marking line ‘∣’ was used for vol. 2 and 3. And they are never been found in any other material so far. The range of the non-read characters of this material is much wider than that, which has been set abstractly by Kugyol or Japanese Kunten researchers. It is assumed that this is mainly because the person who attached Kugyol in this material carefully compared the Chinese text with its Eonhae text and recorded the results. The existence of the non-read characters is of great significance, because the concept of non-read characters has been substantiated with concrete data for the first time, and we can also get many implications for study of the Eonhae text.