Chegwan

Chegwan 諦觀 (?-970) was a monk of the early Goryeo period who received Buddhist instruction in China and was central to the revival of the Chinese Tiantai. He wrote an important introduction to Tiantai thought, A Guide to the Tiantai Fourfold Teachings.

Muller states:

Little is known of his early life. It is said that he first went to China at the invitation of the king of Wuyue 呉越王 (a devout student of Buddhism) who was concerned about replacing texts that had been lost from the Chinese Buddhist corpus because of war and other disasters. In 960 Wuyue sent an envoy to Goryeo with various treasures along with a request for copies of various missing canonical texts. Chegwan was sent to China in response with copies of a commentary on the Zhilun, a commentary on the Sūtra for Humane Kings, and many other texts. In China he met Uijeok, the fifteenth successor of Tiantai, and helped him with the restoration of Tiantai for ten years. Chegwan wrote the two-fascicle Cheontae sagyo ui (currently only the first volume exists), which become a popular guidebook for Tiantai studies throughout East Asia.

Sources

• Muller, A. Charles (trans) (date unknown): "Outline of the Tiantai Fourfold Teachings", compiled by the Goryeo Śramaṇa Chegwan 高麗沙門諦觀. [Web version, [Archive version]