The Korean approach to Zen: the collected works of Chinul

Chinul is a Zen thinker from Korea who had a huge impact on how Korean Zen is practiced and understood, and whom should be as widely known as the Japanese sage Dogen is.

Together with the Silla dynasty scholiast Wonhyo (617-686), Chinul is one of the two most important figures produced by Korean Buddhism. Chinul was the inheritor of a mature tradition already rich after seven hundred years of symbiotic development with its Chinese counterpart.