The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2559 page)

 
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(625–702).
Korean Buddhist monk, who studied Hua-yen Buddhism under Chih-yen (602–68). The second patriarch of the Hwa
m (Chinese Hua-yen) sect, he founded the Pus
k subsect of Hwa
m in Korea, and established Hwa
m as the ideological foundation of the Silla dynasty (668–935). His
Diagram of the Hwa
m One-Vehicle World
, a
mandalic
, meditational device of 210 Chinese characters, has been highly acclaimed by E. Asian Buddhists as a superb compendium of Hua-yen thought. He had ten Hwa
m monasteries built, convertible to forts in the event of foreign invasion.

 
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