Ishida Baigan

Ishida Baigan (Japanese石田 梅岩; born October 12, 1685 in the province of Tamba, † October 29 1744 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese scholar who (also Sekimon Shingaku ,石 问 心 学) founded the philosophical school Shingaku.

Biography

Ishida was born as the second son of a farmer and was called with formal name Kocho (兴 长), his nickname was Kampei (勘 平), as a scholar he was called Baigan. Ishida was adopted in Kyoto as an apprentice in a merchant household. In parallel, he took classes in different schools and started to deal with ethical issues.

When he was a student at Ryōun Oguri (小 栗 了 云), a lay Buddhist of the Obaku school of Zen Buddhismsus, Ishida Get his enlightenment at the age of 35 years. Then he opened an academy in Kyoto and probably began from 1729 to hold lectures in which he set out his ideas of Shingaku ( "Heart Doctrine "). His school soon attracted followers and spread throughout the country especially in the dealer's layer.

To Ishida et al Baigans students heard Tejima Toan.

Teaching

Shingaku as a concept existed earlier and designated a philosophical direction which China came the Song Dynasty from, and in the 16th and 17th centuries came to Japan. Was influenced by the philosophy of Chinese philosopher Zhen Dexiu, the Korean scholar Yi T'oegye and his Japanese admirers Yamazaki Ansai. Another direction of teaching is based on the ideas of Wang Ji and Nakae Tōjus. The doctrine Baigans was a personally colored and formulated variant, which was strongly influenced by neokonfuzianischem ideas. However Baigan also took Daoist, Buddhist and Shinto elements. Baigan himself spoke of his teaching not as Shingaku, this only strengthened his successor Tejima Toan, who gave the doctrine to distinguish the name Sekimon Shingaku (Eng. "Heart Doctrine Ishida ").

The core idea of Baigans doctrine was that man be "heart" (which can also be understood as "spirit" ) had to polish what he Mondo published in 1793 Tohi (都 鄙 问答, " conversation between [ one of the ] city and sets forth [ one of ] country "). In order to polish the heart constant, Ishida propagated a number of Confucian virtues such as modesty, honesty and devotion to the parents. He also criticized the coming of Buddhism reduction of the dealer as a lower layer of the society.

1774 published the document Seika Ishida ron, in which he outlines his thoughts on the government and declares that anyone who does not have his family under control could not possibly govern a country.

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