Sŏn'ga Kwigam (Mirror of Seon)

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Seosan Hyujeong's 1564 anthology — short passages drawn from sūtras and Chan masters and stitched together with his own commentary — designed as a complete Seon training manual for monks during the Joseon suppression. It is the most-read Korean Buddhist primer of the early-modern period and shaped the curriculum of the Jogye order down to the present.

tr. Boep Joeng (modern Korean), various English partials, Sŏn'ga kwigam (1564); modern bilingual editions widely available

license: fair_use

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Seosan Hyujeong

Lineage: Seon

By Seosan Hyujeong

• Investigating the Live Wordpractice-instruction
• Hold the Phrase Like a Mosquito Biting Ironproverb
• Three Bodies, One Swordproverb
• Warrior-Monkproverb
• Three Religions, One Mindproverb

Sources

• contentSŏn'ga kwigam 禪家龜鑑 (Mirror of Seon)

  Seosan Hyujeong

  Seosan, Sŏn'ga kwigam

  The Sŏn'ga kwigam (Mirror of Seon) is Seosan Hyujeong's 1564 training manual, the standard primer of Korean Seon Buddhism in the Joseon era.