The purpose of this study is to consider that the Wongyo's Wonyongjungdo thought, the core idea of Mahayana Buddhism in East Asia, is the hermeneutic basis for explaining physical phenomena identified by the quantum mechanics of modern physics. Buddhi...
The purpose of this study is to consider that the Wongyo's Wonyongjungdo thought, the core idea of Mahayana Buddhism in East Asia, is the hermeneutic basis for explaining physical phenomena identified by the quantum mechanics of modern physics. Buddhism, which originated in India, was introduced to China and combined with the comprehensive thinking system of Chinese special fusion, developed into a Wonyong ideology that embraces and fuses opposing elements. In particular, Wongyo, established through the Taoist statue of Tiantai, understood all phenomena as the three Wonyongsamje of Gong, Ga, and jung, and this was further refined later through the thoughts of Zen and Hwaeom.
Interestingly, this perspective of the original school has a deep structural similarity with the non-substantial and conventional view of reality in modern quantum mechanics. The classical determinism of Newtonian mechanics has reached its limit due to the emergence of quantum mechanics, which presents a relational interpretation that reality is defined in the relationship between observers and systems, in terms of probabilistic superposition before observation, inseparability through quantum entanglement. In other words, the three-pronged Wontongsamje provides a philosophical framework for interpreting the layered structure and potential of the quantum system, and Zen's three-pronged idea, which emphasizes the three-pronged space among the three-pronged, supports the non-substantial view of reality without fixed magnetism from an epistemological level. It can be seen that the of the four-pronged of Hwaeom, which is centered on the three-pronged is expanding the horizon of thinking about quantum entanglement and interconnection.
In conclusion, the Wongyo's Wonyongjungdo ideology provides an important conceptual basis for explaining the paradoxes of the microscopic world that modern physics faces in human language and philosophy beyond the dichotomous way of thinking of Western modern times. This suggests that Buddhism's classical teachings do not remain a legacy of the past, but rather a vital idea that solves the epistemological problems of modern science and technology civilization and opens new ontological horizons.