The Meaning of the Interpretation of a New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean in I-Kuan Tao

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The Meaning of the Interpretation of a New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean in I-Kuan Tao

Author

Yun-Ying Chung

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163-187

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Abstract

This article is to research how I-Kuan Tao (一貫道) comments The Great Learning (大學) and The Golden Mean (中庸) according to A New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean (學庸淺言新註) and to find the religious meaning by this commentary. In this article, I thought that the canon comment is Confucian tradition. A New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean is not a special case, just I-Kuan Tao makes the two canons be religious. The alternative view is worth for the scholars to notice. The goals of A New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean commenting The Great Learning and The Golden Mean are to upgrade the position of Confucianism, to advertise the information of salvation and the emotion of return and to create the new meaning of the ”Xin Li Xin Fa” (性理心法). By commenting the two canons, this commentary advertises the information of Tao and salvation. The main commentary perspectives of A New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean are ”the ultimate and the un-ultimate” and ”the sacred and profane.” Per the comparison of Tao and religion, nature and acquired character, consciousness and stray, this commentary explains the importance of finding the source. Finally, the study raises three examples to explain how A New Elementary Introduction of the Great Learning and the Golden Mean explain Confucian canons from religious perspective. Based on the religious principle, I-Kuan Tao has developed the alternative view of Confucianism canons.

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