[KS] Re: Uisang Paiting

[Youngsook Pak]

Dear Prof. Choe,

This important set of scrolls, known as Kegon engi (The Foundation
Story of the Avatamsaka School) in Japanese, is very well known among
art-historians of East Asian Art. Indeed the scroll depicts the lives
of Uisang (in Japanese Gisho) and Wonhyo (Gengyo), with rather more
about Uisang. These two eminent  monks of Silla were regarded as
the founders of Haedong Hwaom, which gave a renewed influence
to Japan during the Kamakura period. There are several studies on these
scrolls, among them a PhD thesis from Princeton. The scrolls are
illustrated in full in the publication Emakimono zenshu (complete
narrative scrolls).

Youngsook Pak
Department of Art & Archaeology
School of Oriental & African Studies
University of London


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