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This article introduces the biography of Shūyo Hōin(宗与法印), the founder of the Taga Hōin school(多賀法印流), extant historical docu ments and previous research, and examines the ideas and beliefs in the Taga Hoin school.
Shūyo Hōin and his disciples regarded medical treatment as a testi mony of faith in Medicine Buddha, and their ideal was to save people through medical treatment. This ideology was influenced by the ideas of Sun Simiao(孫思邈)in the early Tang Dynasty and Kajiwara Shōzen (梶原性全)at the end of the Kamakura period. Next, the relationship between Buddhism and medicine in the Taga Hōin school was clarified in terms of its basic philosophy. There are two causes of illness: environmental factors, such as weather conditions, and psychological factors, such as joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure, but only lost sentient beings become ill due to psy chological factors. Therefore, the Buddha saves people with medical treat ment.
Medicine is the property of the Buddha. Therefore, the ingredients of medicines are also referred to by metaphors using Buddhist words. In this school, medicine is made with the five elements, which means using the five ingredients of medicine that represent the five elements. The hu man body is also linked to the operation of heaven, earth and nature, whichis also expressed using Buddhist terms. For this reason, The Four Noble Truths of the Lotus Sutra and the Twelve Causes both refer to the num ber of human pulses.
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