대순진리회의 의학사상 - 인간 개체의 생물학적 질병을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The religion presents answers which go beyond the biological scope by re-organizing and re-interpreting the pathological phenomenons which appear in the body and soul of the human being in one’s semantic system. Thus, a review on this is a useful route which lets observe the world view of religion from different points of views and becomes also one measure to expand the denotation and depth of the medial thoughts. Especially, when focusing on the fact that the Korean modern new religion has been given birth, going beyond the existing religion which had shown limitations about the reaction for various problems faced by the society, the task of surveying which interest the new religion is showing about rescue from diseases of human entity can be said to be the verifying process of the identity of Korean new religion. This paper has investigated how Daesoonjinrihoe, the biggest religion among the Korean new religions are explaining about the biological diseases of human entity. To summarize it in short, Daesoonjinrihoe diagnoses as the cause of the diseases, the hazardous energy of the nature, the killing aura emitted by human being, acts of bad gods or sinful ghosts, result of punishment, action of spirits of having grievance and desire. Also, the causes of the disease are the problem of mind and overall, are understood by way of the universal principle, the mutual overcoming (相克). Also, Daesoonjinrihoe is emphasizing on the religious belief about the Supreme God, the Kang Jeungsan and cultivation practice. Daesoonjinrihoe is accepting also the use of medicine and hospital treatment based on the modern technology. Kang Jeungsan said that he removes the mutual overcoming and opens the earthly paradise as reordering of universe. Thus, judging from a big angle, it can be estimated that the aetiology of Daesoonjinrihoe which takes the mutual overcoming as the core principle and the treatment measure for it is firmly based on the unique view of the universe of Daesoonjinrihoe and is functioning as the device which is emphasizing on the necessity of the cultivation practice. These aetiology and healing theory of Daesoonjinrihoe is seen similar to that of the Shamanism, but the background of the aetiology of Daesoonjinrihoe is the view of universe that all things are governed by mutual overcoming, and the aetiology of the Shamanism is emphasizing on the effect of the existence of gods like revengeful spirit. Shamanism and Daesoonjinrihoe both relates the disharmony of the nature to the spirit to explain the aetiology, but there is difference in that the size and scope of the aetiology. The aetiology of Daesoonjinrihoe is connected to the self-cultivation, but the aetiology of the Shamanism which heavily depends on the effect of the existence of piety. Shamanism gives big weight on the formality which pursues the praying for luck and avoiding sacrifice, but Daesoonjinrihoe does not have such healing formality. Also, the aetiology and healing theory of Daesoonjinrihoe also looks similar to that of Tiantai(天台宗), but from the nature’s point of view that Daesoonjinrihoe sees that all things are governed by the mutual overcoming, they show a certain difference in that Tiantai sees the causes of the disease as one thing from the human being’s point of view, the body and soul and the breathing. It is also a difference that Daesoonjinrihoe emphasizes the religious belief about the Supreme God as the healing measure, but Tiantai does not.