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Zen Master Kyongho (1849-1912) was an important figure in Korean Buddhism who revived traditional Zen meditation with the koan. His legacy was also actively developed by Zen Master Sungsan (Seung Sahn), whose Kwanum school has been active in the Czech Republic since the early 1980s. Like every Korean scholar, Kyongho wrote poetry in classical Chinese.

His numerous sonsi (Zen poems) are often in fact maximally brief lectures on the Buddha's teachings, which spread before the reader images of extraordinary depth, clarity and beauty. They can be seen as a verbal expression of the intense experience of the present moment in the mind of an awakened Zen teacher who is able to see things immediately as they are.

Free Wanderer Gyeongho naturally follows the Far Eastern tradition of hermit-hermit poetry and often gives vent in his verse to his unending fascination with the steep rocky mountains of the Korean peninsula.

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