Ŭisang 義湘 / 의상 (625–702), the founder of the Korean Hwaeom 華嚴 school and one of the towering figures of the Silla 新羅 Buddhist intellectual tradition. Lay surname Kim 金 (specifically Kim Il-ji 金日芝 per DILA A001471). Travelled to Tang China with his fellow-Silla pilgrim 元曉 Wǒnhyo in 660 (or 661), but where Wǒnhyo turned back at his celebrated mid-journey awakening, Ŭisang continued to Cháng’ān, where he became the principal Korean disciple of 智儼 Zhìyǎn (602–668) at the Zhìxiāngsì 至相寺 on Mt. Zhōngnán.
After Zhìyǎn’s death in 668, Ŭisang returned to Silla in 670/671, founding the Buseoksa 浮石寺 monastery in 676 — the doctrinal centre of the Korean Hwaeom — and establishing the school as the dominant Buddhist tradition of late-Silla Korea. Posthumously honoured as Hǎidōng huáyán chūzǔ 海東華嚴初祖 (“First Patriarch of Sea-Eastern [Korean] Huáyán”) and Yuánjiào guóshī 圓教國師 (“Round-Teaching National Preceptor”). His most consequential extant work is the [[KR6e0109|Huáyán yī chéng fǎ jiè tú 華嚴一乘法界圖]] (T1887A) — the famous “Diagram of the One-Vehicle Dharma-Realm of the Huáyán” in 1 fascicle — a brief but doctrinally extraordinary work that compresses the entire mature Huáyán doctrinal apparatus into a 210-character verse arranged in the form of a square diagram.
His Korean lineage produced 均如 Kyunyŏ 均如 (923–973), 義天 Ŭich’ŏn 義天 (1055–1101), and a sustained Hwaeom tradition that became the dominant doctrinal school of Goryeo Korea. He died in 702.