A Study on Ritual Space of Holy temple for I Kuan Tao in Taiwan － A Case Study on Fa-Yi Chung-De Yunlin Site of Taoist Rituals

• Main Authors: Yu-Sheng Lin, 林鈺勝
• Other Authors: Kun-Chen Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hfku23

碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 建築與都市設計研究所 === 93 === I Kuan Tao (Religion of One Unity) is one religion propagated into Taiwan from China after Taiwan's restoration from Japan as well as a local religious sect in Taiwan after years of evolution. The source of I Kuan Tao is one of reformed religious sects of Hsien Tien Tao (Way of Former Heaven) as well as one branch of Wu Sheng Lao Mu (Great Mother) with its faith adhering to cultivating holy and ordinary karma (action), disaster salvage and relief as well as recovery of spiritual mind and morality and conduct, and return to roots of Taoist doctrines to deduce each aspect in organization, rites and architecture of religion. This research is divided into two parts in Holy temple and rite. With effects from attributes of secret religion and ritual behavior of I Kuan Tao, the developmental course for space of Holy temple is demarcated into two phases by legalization (1987), with the first phase seeking existence to change the space and the second phase as leadership core and organizational structure revealing its influence following the legalization that gradually develops certain architectural concept accepted through common usage and further forms visage for space of Holy temple of I Kuan Tao nowadays; in the respect of rite, it gives description of status of ritual practices such as etiquettes of I Kuan Tao doctrines, ritual etiquettes, and three thinking standards for talking manner and five virtues by I Kuan Tao. Taking space of Holy temple and ritual space as foundation, this research interprets the architecture of Holy temple, ritual behavior, status of activity, and spatial performance formed in term of the holy cosmology of religious doctrines, and further delves into the incorporated part carried out in space of Holy temple and ritual space in the context of the holy cosmology of religious doctrines.