Huìchāo 慧超 (Korean Hye Cho, ca. 700 – ca. 780), early-Táng-period Silla 新羅 monk, principal early-8th-c. Buddhist pilgrim from East Asia to India and Central Asia. Travelled to Tang China at age 16, then onward to India and the Western Regions ca. 723–727, returning to Tang China and serving thereafter as a translation-bureau collaborator under Vajrabodhi (Jīngāngzhì 金剛智, fl. 671–741) and Amoghavajra (Bùkōng 不空, 705–774) at the imperial Esoteric translation bureau in Cháng’ān.
His sole substantial Kanripo work is the 《往五天竺國傳》 Wǎngwǔ Tiānzhúguó zhuàn (Account of a Journey to the Five Indian Kingdoms, ca. 727) — preserved partially in KR6r0123 Yóufāng jì chāo (T2089) and more substantially in Dūnhuáng manuscript Pelliot 3532, identified and published by Paul Pelliot in 1908. The work is one of the most important 8th-century witnesses to the Buddhist landscape of India and Central Asia, and the principal Korean-Buddhist contribution to the Chinese-language pilgrimage-memoir tradition. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A002130 (DILA records multiple Huìchāo’s; this is the Silla pilgrim).
Works in the Kanripo corpus: KR6r0123 Yóufāng jì chāo (Hye Cho’s Wǎngwǔ Tiānzhúguó zhuàn portion).