The Korean Hwaeomgyeong and Apocryphal Avataṃsaka Materials

Record summary

Korean Huayan or Hwaeom traditions preserved, commented on and ritualized expanded materials connected with the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. The lead is useful for examining how translated scripture, indigenous commentary and devotional practice can become difficult to separate. Korean monks and institutions transmitted texts through Chinese literary channels while developing local doctrinal and ritual emphases. The category “apocryphal” is itself historically contingent, since East Asian Buddhist communities often treated locally produced scriptures as authoritative without using the same canon criteria as modern scholarship.