Seungnang was a

Korean Buddhist Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries. To address this, the ...

monk. He was born in

Goguryeo Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...

and spent most of his life in Sui Dynasty for preaching. He majored in Samnon and is famous for making Samnon flourish in both Sui and

. "He was active around the end of the fifth and early sixth centuries CE and was a native of Yodong in Goguryeo (present-day Liaotung). He was a master of the Three Treatise School (Korean: Samnon) (Madhyamaka School of Nagarjuna)".

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