Uisang

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Uisang was a prominent 7th-century Korean Buddhist monk and scholar, renowned as a key founder of the Hwaeom (Huayan) school in Korea.

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Uisang canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Buddhist scholar
Hwaeom school patriarch
Korean Buddhist monk
Silla Buddhist monk
birthName Uisang
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Silla
doctrine interpenetration of principle and phenomena
mutual containment of all dharmas
educatedAt Tang China
linked to: Tang dynasty
era Unified Silla period
linked to: Unified Silla
ethnicGroup Korean
fieldOfWork Buddhist philosophy
doctrinal exegesis
floruit 7th century
founded Buseoksa
hasHonorificTitle National preceptor (in Korean Buddhist tradition)
influenced Korean Hwaeom school
Uicheon
later Korean scholastic Buddhism
influencedBy Chinese Buddhist scholasticism
Huayan Buddhism
linked to: Huayan / Kegon

Zhiyan
knownFor founding the Hwaeom school in Korea
systematizing Huayan thought in Silla
teaching interpenetration of all phenomena
languageOfWork Classical Chinese
movement Huayan Buddhism
linked to: Huayan / Kegon

Hwaeom Buddhism
nativeName 의상
linked to: Hanbok
nativeNameLang ko
notableWork Diagram of the Dharmadhatu (Hwaeom ilsŭng pŏpkyedo)
linked to: Womb Realm Mandala

Hwaeom doctrinal system in Korea
occupation Buddhist teacher
monk
scholar
philosophicalSchool Huayan
linked to: Huayan / Kegon

Hwaeom
placeOfActivity Buseoksa
Silla
region Korean Peninsula
religion Buddhism
religiousCenter Buseoksa
religiousOrder Buddhist monasticism
romanization Uisang
school Hwaeom school of Korean Buddhism
studiedUnder Fazang (indirectly, via Huayan tradition)
linked to: Huayan / Kegon

Zhiyan
tradition Mahāyāna Buddhism
linked to: Mahayana

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Beomeosa Temple foundedBy Uisang
Uisang birthName Uisang
Uisang romanization Uisang