Azanlansh Orchid-Stone Chang
Undergraduate Degree Program of Rift Valley Interdisciplinary Shuyuan, College of Huilan, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Taiwan.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 25;13:1024413. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1024413. eCollection 2022.
This study explores the development of a cross-cultural primary ontological model that can help self-cultivation practitioners illuminate their path and help researchers identify the complex implications, context, and progression of self-cultivation in diverse cultures, especially those associated with Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Integrating self-cultivation traditions into social science research from the perspective of subject-object dichotomy is difficult. However, the assimilation of the mutual implication of subject and object in the Avataṃsaka worldview helps resolve this issue. This study employs the Buddhist tetralemmic dialectic (catuṣkoṭi), which goes beyond the limitations of dualistic and reductionist logic, to construct the Dialectical Mandala Model of Self-cultivation as the first of a two-step epistemological strategy. The model provides a universal framework for the multifaceted and systemic analysis of self-cultivation traditions so that future research can further develop additional culturally specific ontologies and psychological models in the second step of the strategy. As in a research map, this model could help researchers make ontological commitments, understand self-cultivation more comprehensively, and determine whether they have overlooked any research domain.
本研究探索一种跨文化的原初本体模型的发展，该模型可帮助自我修养实践者明晰其路径，并帮助研究者识别不同文化中自我修养的复杂意涵、背景及发展进程，尤其是与佛教、道教和儒家相关的文化。从主客二分的视角将自我修养传统融入社会科学研究颇具难度。然而，华严世界观中主客相互蕴含的观念有助于解决这一问题。本研究采用超越二元论和还原论逻辑局限的佛教四句逻辑（catuṣkoṭi），构建自我修养辩证曼陀罗模型，作为两步认识论策略中的第一步。该模型为自我修养传统的多维度和系统性分析提供了一个通用框架，以便在该策略的第二步中，未来研究能够进一步开发更多特定文化的本体论和心理学模型。如同在研究地图中一样，该模型可帮助研究者做出本体论承诺，更全面地理解自我修养，并确定他们是否忽略了任何研究领域。
