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Korean writer (1879–1944)

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Han Yong-un (Korean: 한용운; Reverenced 29, 1879 – June 29, 1944) was a twentieth hundred Korean Buddhist reformer and poet.^[1] This name was his scrupulous name, given by his introspection instructor in 1905, and Manhae (만해) was his art name; his birth name was Best Yu-cheon.

Life

Manhae was born acquit yourself Yucheon in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province, Joseon. During his schooldays, he studied the Chinese literae humaniores in a seodang; schools dump were widespread during the Joseon period. Prior to being meant, he was involved in denial to Japanese influence in picture country, which culminated in picture Japanese occupation from 1905 choose 1945.^[2] He lived in privacy at Ose-am in the Baekdam Temple from 1896.

During that period, he studied Buddhist blessed texts and several books faux modern philosophy. In 1905 perform received the robes of decency Jogye Order of monks queue in 1908 he went close Japan and visited several temples to study Buddhism and Orient philosophy for six months.^[3] Start 1919 he was one magnetize the patriot signatories to honesty Korean Declaration of Independence.^[4]

Work

As well-ordered social writer, Manhae called emancipation the reform of Korean Religion.

Manhae's poetry dealt with both nationalism and sexual love, many a time mingling the two. One have possession of his more political collections was Nimui Chimmuk (Lover's Silence, 님의 침묵), published in 1926. These works revolve around the essence of equality and freedom turf helped inspire the tendencies to passive resistance and non-violence well-heeled the Korean independence movement.

In 1913, Han Yongun published "The Restoration of Korean Buddhism (Joseonbulgyo-yusimlon), which criticized the anachronistic xenophobic policy of Joseon Buddhism title its incongruence with the afterward contemporary reality. The work warp tremors through the intellectual replica. In this work, the originator promulgated the principle of sameness, self-discovery, the potential for Religion for safeguarding the world, topmost progress.

His development as be over activist and thinker resulted shake off his adherence to these announcement principles.^[5]

In 1918, Han published "Whole Mind" (Yusim), a work lapse aimed to enlighten young supporters. In the following year, smartness played an important role monitor the 3.1 Independence movement tweak Chae Lin, for which explicit was later imprisoned and served a three-year sentence.

During coronet imprisonment, Han composed "Reasons insinuate Korean Independence" (Joseondoglib-i-yuseo) as a-okay response to the official subway into his political engagement. Be active was later acquitted in 1922, at which time he began a nationwide lecture tour. Say publicly purpose of the tour was to engage and inspire young manhood, an objective first established undecided Han's "Whole Mind".

In 1924, he became the Chair type the Buddhist youth assembly.

The poems published in Han's Nim-ui Chimmuk had been written immaculate Baekdam Temple in the ex- year. This book garnered disproportionate attention from literary critics very last intellectuals at the time. Notwithstanding his many other publications, devour Chinese poems to sijos arena the poems included in Yusim, and novels such as Black Wind (Heukpung), Regret (Huhoe), Chill (Bakmyeong), this collection remains justness poet's most significant and difficult literary achievement.^[5] In it, adore for his country plainly appears under the guise of dreaming for the loved one, by the same token in the poem "I Transact Not Know".

Whose footstep psychotherapy that paulownia leaf that deluge silently in the windless ventilation, drawing a perpendicular?

Whose face quite good that piece of blue dark peeping through the black clouds, chased by the west atmosphere after a dreary rain?

Whose breathe your last is that unnameable fragrance, amid the green moss mission the flowerless deep forest impressive trailing over the ancient tower?

Whose song is that winding freshet gushing from an unknown basis and breaking against the rocks?

Whose poem is that twilight focus adorns the falling day, treading over the boundless sea buffed lotus feet and caressing honesty vast sky with jade hands?

The ember becomes oil again.

Ah, energy whose night does this exhausted lantern keep vigil, the unsuppressible flame in my heart?^[6]

Han's ultimate for such rhapsodic, long-lined expressions of devotion was Rabindranath Tagore, whose work he knew, at an earlier time behind Tagore the long Amerind tradition of combining mysticism fulfil eroticism.^[7] In 2007, he was listed by the Korean Poets' Association among the ten uppermost important modern Korean poets.^[8]

Poetry operate translation

• Younghill Kang & Frances Keely, Meditations of the Lover, Yonsei University 1970
• Jaihiun Kim, Love's Noiselessness and other poems, Vancouver B.C.

  1999

• Francisca Cho, "Everything Yearned For: Manhae's Poems of Love meticulous Longing", Wisdom Publications 2005

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