Huáyán jīng wén yì yào jué wèn dá 華嚴經文義要決問答
Essential Decisive Questions and Answers on the Wording and Meaning of the Huáyán Scripture by 表員 (Pyowŏn, 集 / compiled)
About the work
This 4-fascicle text by the Korean Hwaeom-school monk 表員 Pyowŏn is a substantial yào jué wèn dá (“essential decisive question-and-answer”) compilation on the doctrinal cruxes of the [[KR6e0001|Avataṃsaka jīng]]. The format extends the yào wèn dá genre established by 智儼 Zhìyǎn’s [[KR6e0083|Wǔshí yào wèn dá]] (T1869) to a more comprehensive treatment, providing decisive answers (yào jué 要決) to a wide range of doctrinal questions.
Prefaces
No formal preface.
Abstract
The work belongs to the broad late-Silla period (700 – 935 CE bracket adopted here). Pyowŏn’s compilation draws on both the Korean Hwaeom commentarial tradition (Ŭisang and his successors) and the Tang Chinese Huáyán scholarship; the result is a substantial document of late-Silla Hwaeom doctrinal teaching.
The work is preserved in the Manji Xù zàng jīng (X237) collection.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
- Buswell, Robert E., Jr. The Korean Approach to Zen (1983).
- Hamar, Imre, ed. Reflecting Mirrors (2007).
Other points of interest
- The work is one of the principal extant Korean Hwaeom catechetical works, providing important comparative material for the Korean reception and development of mature Tang Huáyán doctrine.