대산(大山) 김대거(金大擧)의 사상과 문학 ― 동아시아발(發) 근대 평화사상으로서의 원불교

Abstract

There is the very purpose of this article to make a close inquiry into the possibilities that have mutual communication and link between Won-Buddhism and the East-Asian discourse through the venerable Dharma master Daesan Kim Dae-ga(1914~1998)'s thought and Dharma-literature. He was the third head master of Won-Buddhism who succeeded the venerable great master of dharma Sotaesan(1891~1943) and the Successive leader Chongsan(1900~1962)'s Dharma Seat. The essential doctrine of Won-Buddhism is based on the Il-Won, the Dharma Buddha which is the Ultimate truth of the universe, the object of faith, the model of practice, and the reality of all existence. So, let all of us believe, practice and enlighten it to come to the spiritual peace and the ideal world that we've dreamed of and staved for. According to all Buddha and enlightened Sages's dharma teaching, it is so stupid to seek after the truth and the happiness apart from each of mind. In the same manner the ideal religious world that Won-Buddhism make mention is not a transcendent space and a vague future-world established by religious providence or scientific technology but the real and mental embodied by mind practice and Buddhism-praxis. Hence, Dae san had presented the mind practice to come to the true Nirvana and the movement of United Religion to realize the world peace through cooperations with other religion. The aim and orientation of the religious practice and movement is to get over kinds of conflict among nation, class, race, gender, and religion. At this point the tenet of Won-Buddhism incorporated with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism can be defined the new principle of peace to grope for the limitation of modern society and Dae San's thought prescribed the object of our East-Asian Discourse to be scrutinized positively.