Dogma Park Joong-bin
So Tae-san, the founder of Won Buddhism, was born in 1891 as the son of an ordinary farmer in Yeongchon Village in Gilryong-ri, Baeksu-myeon, a mountain village 4 km from Beopseongpo in Yeonggwang-gun along Watancheon Stream. It is said that from an early age (7 to 9 years old) he had an extraordinary curiosity about things and puzzled his parents and people around him with questions about the sky, clouds, and wind. However, it is said that he was not satisfied with the answers of his adults, and he always had doubts in his mind and was determined to solve them at every opportunity. His educational background is that he attended a Chinese school for 6 months at the age of 7, and he made various efforts to get answers about the universe and humans that he kept in his heart.
From the age of 12, he climbed the mountain and prayed for a year to meet the mountain god, but while he was unable to achieve his goal, he heard the story of a Taoist in an ancient novel and went to various places to meet a Taoist.
However, when he was unable to meet the mountain god and the Taoist, he fell into despair at the age of 23 and went to the point where he sat in his room and forgot his consciousness. At that time, Sotaesan had enemies in his chest, boils all over his body, and his beard and hair were long, so his neighbors treated him as a degenerate.
In this state, he is said to have gained a great realization as his mind was suddenly refreshed in the early morning of April 28, 1916, when he was 26 years old. Having attained enlightenment, he thought about the questions he had had so far, and everyone said, ‘It did not exceed one thought‘, and the state of that enlightenment was ‘Man-U is one body, and Man-law is one source. Among these, a clear foundation was built on the basis of the principle of cause and effect and the principle of causation without birth and death’.
After gaining enlightenment, about 40 people gathered at Mt. Sotae, and they selected 9 of them as the central figure in the founding of the religious order. He passed away at the age of three. So Tae-san got married at the age of 20 and had two sons and one daughter, and the eldest son was Park Gil-jin, the first president of Wonkwang University.
Concerning the personality of Master Daejongsa, Jeongsan Song-gyu (1900-1962), who took over as Jongbeopsa after Sotaesan passed away, expressed it as follows.
Alas, Master Daejongsa grew up in a remote village as a Gwanggeopjongseong (Gwanggeopjongseong) early on, and had no training in learning, but was aware of the great sword, and although he was in a state of panic, he did not hesitate to do business and was a stubborn sentient being. He is equipped with almighty powers of the system, and his spirit is like that of Mount Tai, but his mercy of the spring wind and his temper is perfect. He transforms the world, but establishes a greater cause, cures the sickness of the times, but does not stop at stubbornness, and covers all dharmas together, but makes discernment more clear, and uses one for all dharmas, but always reveals the main body, and inside it is 無上妙意 Based on the principle of mystic righteousness, and through the tributary streams of things and things outside, he opened the right Dharma of Wonwondaedo infinitely in the three quarters of the world. ) is.
