True Taoism - Shindai Dokyo

A sect of new Taoism. In 1142 (the second year of the imperial line) during the Jin dynasty, Liu Deren (1122-80) of Zhengzhou (Leling County, Shandong Province, China) mastered the gist of the Tao Te Ching and began to spread Taoism based on this. The sect's teachings are based on the idea of ​​purity and inaction, and it preaches a life of asceticism, self-sufficiency, and mutual assistance, including Buddhist precepts and Confucian morality, which span the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Since the Yuan dynasty, this sect has been favored on a par with Zhengyi Sect and Quanzhen Sect, and has established a social status, but as it expanded into Jiangnan, internal conflicts over succession continued, and it was destroyed before the emergence of the Ming dynasty.

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新道教の一派。州(そうしゅう)（中国山東省楽陵県）の劉徳仁(りゅうとくじん)（1122―80）が金代の1142年（皇統2）に『道徳経』の要旨を会得し、これに基づいて布教に入った。その教説は清浄無為(しょうじょうむい)の所説を本旨とし、仏教の戒律、儒教の道徳など、儒仏道三教にわたる9か条の教誡(きょうかい)を掲げ、禁欲的な自給自足と相互扶助の生活を説いている。この教派は元朝から正一(しょういつ)教、全真(ぜんしん)教と並ぶ優遇を受け、社会的地位を確立したが、教線を江南に拡張するに及んで、嗣承をめぐる内紛が続き、明(みん)朝の出現をまたず滅び去った。

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