원불교의 죽음교육과 생사관

Abstract

Every religion has tenet on death. Frankly, it can be said that origin of religion begins from the matter of death and the way of it solution. As each religion has its own doctrine on death, the view of death in Won-Buddhism is based on the truth of Il-Won-Sang and accepting rebirth thought from Buddhism. According to such bases, Won-Buddhism suggested, in various places of the tenets, many ways of practices to attain liberation from death. Won-Buddhism does not consider death as disconnection of life, but as natural process of change according to principle of nature and universe. The matter of death can not be able to experience while we are alive and is not able to convey in frame work of intellectual system. Maybe therefore, most of people usually think of death as not their own matter. However, if a solid doctrinal system on the matter of death has established, it can find out much more dynamics in life, and is also able to found a new ideological system which can solve all the matters in modern society in which material and realistic values are reversed. In the modern society which pursues own value through competitions and teaches methods of those competitions, the education on death will be a seeker of meanings of co-existence and life.