Language: Korean
Published by Dongguk Translation Institute, Seoul, South Korea, 1980
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Yi Byeong-heo - Seoul: Dongguk Translation Institute, 1980. Scholarly Korean-language commentary and annotated edition of the Surangama Sutra, a major Mahayana Buddhist scripture foundational to East Asian Chan/Seon and Yogacara thought. Text presented in classical Chinese with interlinear Hangul (Korean) annotations, extensive exegetical notes, and preface material on Buddhist translation philosophy. Includes a short biographical sketch and portrait of the commentator, a Buddhist monk and educator affiliated with Dongguk University. A brief English and Korean handwritten meditation note appears on the rear endpaper: "My personal relationship with the universal God," followed by reflective phrases in Korean. Original publisher's price label (W12,000) from Bulgyo Seojeom (Buddhist Bookstore, Seoul) affixed to rear flyleaf. Condition: Near Fine. Binding tight and square; pages are lightly annotated. Mild toning at page edges; faint creasing at jacket top edge.