Kūkai's Bodily Absorption and Modern Scientific Philosophy — A Rigorous Analysis from the Self-Referential Mind-Field to T⁶⁴ Sectional Projections
Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi) entered meditative absorption in 835 CE; his body remains incorrupt to this day and receives daily homage from devotees at Okunoin on Mount Kōya. Traditional Buddhist scholarship has offered doctrinal interpretations of this phenomenon, yet a dialogue interface with modern scientific philosophy has been lacking. While preserving the depth of Buddhist textual research, the present paper introduces the cognitive framework of Yuanxian Theory: 1. defines a “section” as a projection operator \\(\\pi_{\\sigma}\\) on the fibration of \\(T^{64}\\);2. clarifies the subordination relation between \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) and \\(T^{64}\\): \\(\\Psi^{*}\\in\\mathrm{Fix}(F)\\), where \\(F\\) is the self-referential operator on \\(T^{64}\\);3. restricts “immutability” to the axiomatic layer, leaving derivative analyses open to future empirical evidence. **Core claims**: - Bodily incorruptibility is not “material structure that has not decomposed” — it is the steady-state manifestation of \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) after self-referential closure has been completed on the “bodily section”.- The “spiritual-information energy field” is not “another kind of field” — it is the self-inspection phase structure of \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) on the latent-phase section.- The six supernormal powers are not “supernatural abilities” — they are projection readings of \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) on six specific sections. --- 空海(弘法大师)于公元835年入定,至今肉身不坏,每日于高野山奥之院接受信徒顶礼。这一现象在传统佛学研究中有教理层面的阐释,但始终缺乏与现代科学哲学的对话接口。 本文在保持佛学研究文献深度的基础上,引入元宪理论的认知框架: 1. 将“截面”定义为 \\(T^{64}\\) 纤维化上的投影算子 \\(\\pi_{\\sigma}\\);2. 明确 \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) 与 \\(T^{64}\\) 的从属关系:\\(\\Psi^{*}\\in\\mathrm{Fix}(F)\\),其中 \\(F\\) 是 \\(T^{64}\\) 上的自指算子;3. 将“不可更易”限定于公理层,派生解析向未来经验敞开。 **核心论点**: - 肉身不坏不是“物质结构未被分解”——它是 \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) 在“肉身截面”上完成自指闭合后的稳态显影。- “精神信息能量场”不是“另一种场”——它是 \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) 在隐相截面上的自检相位结构。- 六神通不是“超自然能力”——它们是 \\(\\Psi^{*}\\) 在六个特定截面上的投影读数。
Authors
- Zhenyuan Acharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3690-569X)
Institutions
- Cosmos Corporation (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22703432
- Primary Topic
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Type
- preprint