Seongcheol
Seongcheol 성철 性徹 | |
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| Title | Zen master, Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Yi Yeongju April 6, 1912 |
| Died | November 4, 1993 (aged 81) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| School | Seon |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 성철 |
| Hanja | 性徹 |
| RR | Seongcheol |
| MR | Sŏngch'ŏl |
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Seongcheol (Korean: 성철; April 6, 1912 – November 4, 1993) was a Korean Seon master. He was a key figure in modern Korean Buddhism, being responsible for significant changes to it from the 1950s to 1990s.
Seongcheol was widely recognized in Korea as having been a living Buddha, due to his extremely ascetic lifestyle, the duration and manner of his meditation training, his central role in reforming Korean Buddhism in the post-World War II era, and the quality of his oral and written teachings.