부석사는 신라가 삼국을 통일한 혼란한 시기에 의상이 개창하여 우리나라 화엄종의 근본도량으로 자리잡은 고찰이다. 부석사의 창건주인 의상은 삼국사기, 송고승전(宋高僧傳) 등의 기록을 통하여 불교적 역량뿐 아니라 풍수지리적으로도 높은 식견을 가지고 부석사라는 좋은 입지를 찾고자 노력하였고, 부석사 터는 애초부터 풍수지리적으로 상당한 길지였음을 알수 있다. 부석사 터에 대한 지형답사와 위성지도 등을 활용한 객관적이고 정밀한 지형분석을 하여 풍수지리적으로 명당길지임을 확인하였고, 정확한 혈처의 위치와 풍수지리적 공간구조의 형세를 규명하였다. 그리고 부석사는 명당공간의 기운을 효과적으로 향유(享有)하기 위하여 경사지고 협소한 지형공간에 다른 사찰에서는 볼수 없는 특이한 건축구조와 가람배치를 하였음을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 부석사의 가람배치는 풍수지리적인 공간활용방안이었음을 고찰하였다.

In that the Buddhism is the religion founded by Buddha, the settlement of Buddha's existence is very important in the temple building arrangement which symbolizes the Buddha's world. What symbolizes the Buddha in the temple are the pagoda and the Buddhist image. Among them, the Buddhist image is directly connected with the Golden Hall. This kind of double structure is settled as a typical pattern for the arrangement of buildings such as halls and pagodas. The earlier one between the pagoda and Buddhist image is the pagoda, of course. It can be inferred that, through the gradual expansion of the Buddhist images, the gravity was transferred from the pagoda to the Golden Hall. But, if the Buddhist image can be connected with the Golden Hall in that it was the product reflecting the requests on the Buddha and his teaching, the internal origin of the Buddhist image should also go back to the early Buddhism. In fact, the gravest building in Veṇuvana - vihāra or Jetavana - anāehapiṇḍasyārāṃa was the Golden Hall, the Buddha's residence. And in the summit of Gṛdhrakūṭa or Jetavana - anāehapiṇḍasyārāṃa where Buddha stayed long, there is the gandha - kuṭī the Buddha's place till now. It means that the symbolic request on the Buddha and his teaching had existed even before the Buddhist image and that this tendency could be connected with the generation of Buddhist image. This paper is to show that the hall / pagoda structure generalized in the building arrangement of later age was originated not just from the Buddhist image and the sarira pagoda but from the gandha - kuṭī and the hair pagoda, and therefore the two should coexist inevitably. It is an attempt to develop a little more in the ideological perspective the general theory that the pagoda and the Buddhist image were fused into one precinct of temple later in their respective origins. That is, it tries to recognize the relation of pagoda and hall not as the conflicting one but as the complementary one.

The inner gate (The last gate inside a temple, facing the main hall) is not a well-known part in the temple construction of Joseon. This study is focused on seeking truth about the inner gate arrangement of the existing temples as well as proving that it has changed while maintaining a certain relationship with the gate-pavilion arrangement. The inner gate is related to the Cheondo ritual which is letting the dead people's spirits go to heaven, mainly performed in Buddhism, and it has been demonstrated that the inner gate has gradually disappeared as the importance of gate-pavilions has been emphasized along with the changes of the ritual. The inner gate was a common construction before the 18th Century but since that time, it has gradually disappeared and finally it faced the main hall as the gate-pavilion and made the 4 halls-centered arrangement with the temple dormitories on both sides.