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불교의 생명이해=A Buddhist Interpretation of Life
Author 김종욱 (著)=Kim, Jong-Wook (au.)
Source 불교학연구=Korea Journal of Buddhist Studies
Volumev.12
Date2005.12
Pages7 - 40
Publisher불교학연구회=佛教學研究會
Publisher Url http://www.kabs.re.kr/
LocationDaegu, South Korea [大邱, 韓國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language韓文=Korean
Keyword생명=life; 상호의존성=interdependence; 유정=有情=sattva; 식=識=vijṅāna; 업=業=karma; 공=空=śūnyatā
Abstract In Buddhism, Chinese characters 壽命 (yur, life ornate by the heaven) or 生 (utpda, jti, to live) and命 (jivita, heavenly order) are used instead of 生命 (life) to represent the notion of life. Nevertheless, life phenomenon and organisms, as the subjects of this study, can be most appropriately represented by Buddhist terminology 衆生 (sattva, living beings).The Sanskrit word sattva stands for "being" or "entity" as we can be tell from sat, which means "existence." "Being" is a very general word which has been divided by territorial ontology in Western metaphysics and is in need of territorial classification, as is sattva, for an in-depth study. The notion of being is divided into humans, organisms, and eco-system (organisms + environment); and sattva is sorted into 'ordinary persons', 'sentient being', and 'arising from conditional causation'. In terms of territory, 'ordinary persons', 'sentient being', and 'arising from conditional causation' coincide with humans, organisms, and eco-system, respectively.
Individual organisms exist based on metabolism, reproduction, and evolution. This life phenomenon can be described in Buddhist terms as "something that is neither same nor different (不一不異)" and "something that neither continues forever nor completely disappears (不常不斷)".First of all, metabolism is the phenomenon of inconsistency (不一, anekatva).A life being continues to metabolize and to grow through cell division; I am not the same person I was a month ago. All cells in a human body are replaced in merely six months. However, I am not a completely different (不異, ananya) person from what I was a month ago.A series of thought processes are stored in memory, and an assumption that thoughts continue consistently with memories.The storage of life-long experience that takes the gene-like form is called ālaya-vijṅāna in Yogacara Buddhism, and it becomes the subject of transmigration as the storage of karma force (業力). Therefore, one does not completely disappearin death (不斷, anuccheda), and a life-long experience, information, and kamma force are stored in genes or ālaya-vijṅāna to be handed down.
All living beings are merely one stage of the historical transfer and continuance; they are not completely destroyed in death (不滅, aniruddha), yet they are not completely new at birth (不生, anutpatti).Nothing lasts forever (不常, anitya), and a being must continuously change itself to better adapt to the environment through evolvement for survival. The life phenomenon of an individual based on metabolism (不一), reproduction (不異. 不斷), and evolution (不常) is something neither same nor different, all the while neither lasting forever nor disappearing completely, and neither new nor destroyed in entirety. It is a process of continuous change broken away from immutability in variability(無常, anitya), selflessness (無我, anātman), and emptiness (空, śūnyatā).Individual life as an organism is a sentient being (有情, sattva) based on emptiness (空性, śūnyatā) that features sensitivity (情, indriya), intentionality (行, saṃkāra), and conductability (業. karma).
Table of contentsI. 들어가는 말 7
II. 생명 현상 일반의 이해 8
III. 인간 생명의 이해 15
IV. 생명의 윤리적 이해 23
V. 불교의 생명관에서 본 배아줄기세포 연구 29
1. 생명 일반의 관점 29
2. 인간 생명의 관점 31
3. 생명 윤리의 관점 34
VI. 맺는 말 36
ISSN15980642 (P)
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Created date2021.04.16
Modified date2021.04.16



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