The Beopseongge ( Korean : 법성게 ; Hanja : 法性偈 ) or Hwaeom ilseung beopgye do (Diagram of the Avataṃsaka Single Vehicle Dharmadhātu) ( Korean : 화엄일승법계도 ; Hanja : 華嚴一乘法界圖 ) is a Buddhist text created by Uisang , Korean monk of the Silla period. The title is rendered in English as "The Song of Dharma Nature". This monumental script is widely known to many Korean Seon Buddhism and Japanese zen and Chinese chan . Beopseongge is recorded on not only Tripitaka Koreana in Korea but Taishō Tripiṭaka in Japan.
4-453: The chart is written in 210 letters only. And letters are placed in 54 squared maze shaped chart that has no end. Since this maze shaped chart was made with the symbols and meanings of dharma and dharani, some monks used as mystic stamp like talisman for lay people. This type of gatha was widely used in tang dynasty China and Silla dynasty Korea. It was the time when woodenblock printing carved with maze shape and poem on it, called 'Bansi(盤詩)',
8-804: Is originally derived from the Sanskrit/Prakrit root gai , which means 'to speak, sing, recite or extol', cognate to the Avestan term gatha . The stanzas of the Prakrit dialects of Ardhamagadhi , Sauraseni and Pāli are known as gathas as opposed to shlokas and sutras of Sanskrit and dohas of Apabhramsha . Most of the Jain and Buddhist texts written in Prakrit are composed of gathas (or verses/stanzas). Thus, gatha can mean any Prakrit and Pali verses in general, or specifically
12-549: Was attending the lecture of Hwaeom Sutra in tang dynasty china. As Original title of this chart, this gatha written precisely and concisely written for the essence of the Hwaeom Sutra. Gatha Gāthā is a Sanskrit term for 'song' or 'verse', especially referring to any poetic metre which is used in legends or folklores, and is not part of the Vedas but peculiar to either Epic Sanskrit or to Prakrit . The word
16-674: Was flourished. Recently used as logo of Haeinsa , one of the tri-gem(the buddha, the dharma and the sangha) temples in South Korea. The name or the temple 'Haein' also came from the gatha's 'Hae-in samadhi'. The gatha describes the dharma nature, written in 30 rows of 7 words in Chinese. Uisang was deeply influenced by the Hwaeom Sutra( Avatamsaka Sutra , the Huayen Sutra). He wrote this gatha while he
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