Hyujeong

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Hyujeong (Korean: 휴정; Hanja: 休靜, 1520–1604), also called Seosan Daesa (서산대사; 西山大師) was a Korean Seon master. As was common for monks in this time, he became an itinerant monk, living in a succession of monasteries. Buddhist monks had been forced to keep a low profile since General Yi Seonggye had been forced to eject Buddhism from its state of total permeation of government in order to gain the support of Neo-Confucian scholar-officials to consolidate his position against his Buddhist political