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義天 Ŭich'ŏn (1055-1101); one of the major Korean scholar-monks of the mid-Koryŏ. His major area of expertise was in Hwaŏm 華嚴, but he ended up becoming most famous for being a transmitter of the Ch'ŏnt'ae 天台 tradition in Korea. He was one of the Koryŏ's most famous advocates of Sŏn/Kyo unity. Ŭich'ŏn was the fourth son of a devout Buddhist king, and entered the sangha at a young age. Like most other early Koryŏ monks, he began his studies in Buddhism with Hwaŏm. He later traveled to China, where he studied under a number of leading masters from a variety of lineages, including Ch'an 禪宗, Hua-yen, Vinaya 戒律, Pure Land 淨土 and Tiantai. Returning to Korea, Ŭich'ŏn very actively spread the Ch'ŏnt'ae teaching, believing that it, as a balanced system, provided a viable solution to the heated Sŏn/Kyo debate which surrounded him at the time. Ultimately, however, his negative attitude towards Sŏn undermined his efforts to accommodate Sŏn adherents, and he died fairly young without accomplishing his mission. His main writings are contained in the Taegak kuksa munjip 大覺國師文集, and he is also famous for his histories and catalogues of Buddhist texts, which have been an invaluable source for later scholars. Ŭich'ŏn's works.

Definition[2]

謂十住菩薩善解諸法之義,是名義天。(十住者,發心住、治地住、修行住、生貴住、具足住、正心住、不退住、童真住、法王子住、灌頂住也。)

Source
明,一如《三藏法數》字庫
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