Hyecho
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'''Hyech'o''' (; ; 704–787), was a Silla Buddhist monk and traveller active during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. He is primarily remembered for his account of his travels in medieval India, the .
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8th cent.
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Hyechʻo ŭi Wang o Chʻŏnchʻukkuk chŏn
- The Hye Ch'o diary
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Study on the Current Status of Korea-Kazakhstan Music Exchange
· 2021
- Current Status and Challenges of Korea-Uzbekistan
Art Exchange
· 2021
- A Study on the Exchange of Musicals Between Korea and Russia
· 2018
- "Study on the Historical Changes of The Nutcracker: from Petipa to Grigorovich"
· 2020
- Current Status and Challenges of Korean-Uzbekistan Music Exchange
· 2020
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Key facts
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- %_혜초
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 慧超
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Silla
- Place of birth
- Silla
- Occupation
- poet
- Religion
- Chinese Esoteric Buddhism
- Student of
- Amoghavajra
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- date of birth
- 0704-01-01
- date of death
- 0787-01-01
- Commons category
- Hyecho
- religious name
- 慧超
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- Excerpt: Hyech'o on Jibin
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
'''Hyech'o''' (; ; 704–787), was a Silla Buddhist monk and traveller active during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. He is primarily remembered for his account of his travels in medieval India, the .
In the 2017 work ''Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism'', with support from other (art) historians, scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr. uses his story to introduce the range of Buddhist traditions of the period.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyecho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.