| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 宗教與文化學系碩士班 === 106 === Professor Tsung-San Mou proposed that Chinese philosophy is the core of Chinese culture and that three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are the core of Chinese philosophy. The two core concepts of the three religions the subject and morality. Based on these two core concepts, he proposed the Perfect-Mature Theory (PMT). But the PMT lacks to list and explain the practice of self-cultivation. Professor Kwang-Kuo Hwang constructed the “Mandala Model of Self (MMS)”, which was based on the "Undiscovered Self" theory developed by Jung in his later years. In addition, the MMS also drew on the anthropologist Harris’s theory, which was based on the Western academic traditions, to analyze the way people behave via three levels: biologist individual, psychologist self, and sociological person. However, the MMS did not include the three religions leading to not precisely define subjects and morality, as well as their self-cultivation processes. Therefore, according to the “The path to enlightenment” written by Master Yin Shun based on the “Theory of practicing ways to Buddha”, Atisha and Tsongkhapa’s “the Theory of the Three-Type Graded Path for Practicing Attaining Buddha”, a three-layered MMS of the self-cultivation process based on Buddhism was constructed by the author. Based on the doctrines of the Mean with its concept of “what heaven confers is called nature” and Great Learning with its self-cultivation process from studying the phenomenon of the objects to the peaceful and prospering world, a three-layered MMS of the self-cultivation process based on Buddhism was constructed by the author. It is hoped that these two models could solve Professor Hwang’s problem and lead to later social science research inclusive of Confucianism and Buddhism.
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