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Wolinchongangjigok is an epic regarding Buddha's entire life. It consists of 4 parts: the story of Buddha's previous life, from Buddha's birth to his leaving home, from Buddha's leaving home to his spiritual awakening, and from Buddha's spiritual awakening to entering Nirvana. The concrete activities and characters are described or narrated through the various affairs for each time. Wolinchongangjigok features as a heroic epic as well as Buddha's biography. It is based on the religious sanctity. It can be called a heroic epic, because Buddha follows a good or right path to get
the final triumph. It would do credit to a standard heroic epic in the respect of its sublime philosophy. The whole work of Wolinchongangjigok consists of ‘the whole prologue, preface, narration part, didactic part, epilogue’. Yet, including all the songs Wolinchongangjigok (the first volume), the text of this essay is a total of 194 units. Accordingly, we can ascertain the contents of only the term after Buddha's spiritual awakening. In the narration of Buddha's life, the various affairs are connected on the basis of time order and parallel row. The narration of Wolinchongangjigok is divided into five sequences. They are as follows;
1. Sogudam, who was killed under a false accusation, was reborn in the Gudam family by Daegudamm and they flourished.
2. The prince was born.
3. The prince leaves home and practices asceticism.
4. The prince accomplishes his spiritual awakening and saves the living things.
5. Buddha enters Nirvana.

The sequences are divided into many sub-sequences. Affairs that construct the sequences are divided into the Kernels and Satellites. Although the songs do not fit the whole story progression, which means a tangled situation in the plot it can be said that the epic structure is formed to carve the divinity of
Buddha and religious sanctity. The core narrative in the Wolinchongangjigok regards the troubles between the King Suddhodana and his son. The Prince wanted to go but the king Suddhodana wanted to buttonhole him from a secular viewpoint. Ultimately, leaving home and spiritual awakening were his final fate. Wolinchongangjigok has a surface meaning that defines the process
to form the doctrines of Buddhism, an inner meaning that expresses King Sejong's mind. In the Wolinchongangjigok, there exists the didactic conclusion like Yongbi-oucheon'ga, Therefore, it must be a special instance of Akjang that embodied the ultimate instructiveness based on the epic style.

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