Barukung school
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ≈ 20 million adherents | |
| Founder | |
| Four Eternals | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Continental Isuan | |
| Shang Fa | ≈ 18 million adherents |
| Religions | |
| Anshan Orthodoxy Free Collegium of the Celestial Immortals Paccakkakism | |
| Scriptures | |
| Aruvian canon Classics of the Four Eternals | |
| Languages | |
| Alawese Huranian | |
The Barukung School, more often simply called Barukukung or New Law Macakkanism, is the second major tradition within the Macakkanism faith. It emerged during the Alawokambese Thalassocratic Period when the faith spread to Huran and was re-interpreted by the local Huranian based on their own philosophical concepts, such as the Taijitu, internal alchemy, or the quest for immortality, with added millenialist expectations. The Huranian Kuang Dynasty of Huran would represent the high point of this original New Law Macakkanism as a way for Huranian people to re-establish their sovereignty over the foreign Alawese and Kambese hegemonies. This religio-political conflict found its conclusion with the Compromise at Anshan which gave birth to the Collegiums system.
Barukung Macakkanism is often characterized as the more Exoteric and Moralist movement between the two historical schools of law, with a greater attention to the worship of local deities, or vice-regents, Immortals, as well as the focus on one of the two fundamentals (Macinnong, or "Order") understodd as "good" whereas its counterpart (Ajakeng, Chaos) is seen as "evil", a characterisation that does not exist within the Old Law.
The largest denomination within the New Law is the Anshan Orthodoxy that claim to be the direct successor of the School of Moral Order, Four Eternals Movement, and the Order of the Supreme Peace. Many movements have opposed themselves to the Anshan Orthodoxy and its structure, but nowadays most have coalesced into the Free Collegium of the Celestial Immortals that was especially popular under the State of Khitay and remain a major denomination in northern Shang Fa.
Doctrines
Macinnong Supremacy
In all Barukung Sects, Macinnong is understood as a superior state over Ajakeng. Taking from the traditional Huranian philosophical background, Macinnong is understood as the natural state of relations between Yin and yang, where one phase lead to another so on and so forth in a cyclical movement allowed by the The Void, or World Embryo. Ajakeng, the fundamental opposite of Macinnong, is thus seen a force that introduce chaos and disorder in the universe' natural cycle, and is thus negatively perceived by Barukung scholars.
The actual perception of Ajakeng varies from sect to sect. The Anshan Orthodoxy sees the dialectic between Macinnong and Ajakeng as a dualistic clash between good and evil. The Free-Collegium of the Celestial Immortals however have given Ajakeng the name of "Macinnong' Fool" as, in the words of one of their recognized Authority on the Four Immortal' Classics : "Ajakeng is Macinnong' Fools, as its desire to destroy order and bring disunity is used by Macinnong' to maintain itself and keep the cycle moving [...]. Ajakeng' successes are merely transition from one state to another and thus serve despite their own wish Macinnong' plan." Other sects can hold even more radical positions. Many millenialist have thuse rallied themselves behind the Mantra "There is no Foundation but Macinnong and Dēnghuā is its Saviour".