This dissertation is written in order to research for the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style in two aspects. The first aspect is about the view of virtue and vice, life and death in the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style, the second aspect is about the construction of paragraph and the development of repenting song Buddhist Gasa in the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style.
Firstly, I researched the way of paragraph deployment and the construction of paragraph in repenting song Buddhist Gasa works. In the way of paragraph deployment in repenting song Buddhist Gasa works, there consists of five paragraphs in order which are the paragraph of birth, the paragraph of getting old, the paragraph of getting sick, the paragraph of death, the paragraph of advice. This way of paragraph deployment means that human beings life and death is allowed one time through their whole life.
And there were five paragraphs in each one work in the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style. And each paragraph consist of many sentences which are assertive, interrogative, imperative in order to make lay people change their mind from attachment for the mundane world into freedom beyond anything by informing knowledge, emphasizing virtues, advising Buddhist practicing.
Secondly, in the aspect of the view of virtue and vice, death and life in the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style, I tried to research the characteristics of virtue and vice, life and death. When 10 kings of the other world are judging humanbeing’s all activity in this world, there coming up the specific virtue and vice which were very realistic, for example, filial piety, loyalty, helping people out of bad situation. Keeping those decorums is virtue, violating those decorums is vice.
And in the characteristics of life and death. the persona of the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style thought that people can come into the world by parents and gods, Buddha without before life, the persona of it didn’t believe in the reincarnation of life. That’s why life and death is one way. But considering later part of work, there is found the reincarnation of life and death. So concluding two kinds of life and death, we can insist that the view of life and death in the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style be dualistic.
Even though I studied the repenting song Buddhist Gasa style in this research paper, there could be the other Buddhist Gasa style. I might continue researching the other Buddhist Gasa style related with this style next time in the near future.