Education
During this period of travel and study, Jinul was said to have studied the entire Tripiṭaka and had a series of awakenings.
普照知訥
During this period of travel and study, Jinul was said to have studied the entire Tripiṭaka and had a series of awakenings.
Bojo Jinul"s birthname was Jeong and by age 15 he left his family to ordain under Seon Master Jonghwi of Sagulsan Mountain School, one of the nine mountain schools of Seon, receiving the ordination name "Jinul". This occurred in 1173. By 1182, Jinul passed the royal examination for monks and qualified for a higher administrative position, but turned it down to join the Seon community in Pyongyang"s Bojesa Temple.
The community being uninterested in his efforts to reform the retreat community, he moved to Cheongwonsa Temple at Changpyeong, then Bomunsa Temple on Mountain.
Hagasan. Jinul sought to establish a new movement within Korean Seon which he called the "samadhi and prajñā society" (Hangul: 정혜사. Hanja: 定慧社; ready reckoner: Jeonghyesa).
This movement"s goal was to establish a new community of disciplined, pure-minded practitioners deep in the mountains. This earned him the respect of the Goryeo, and in particular King Huijong, who ordered that Mount Songgwangsan be renamed Jogyesan in his honor.
Upon his death in 1210, he was given a posthumous title of honor by King Huijong as well.
Essence-Function
Essence-Function takes a particular form in the philosophy and writings of Jinul. View of Nirvana
Jinul viewed Nirvana as a sublime essence that is present in all beings. Writing on the faith in such matters held by his own school, Jinul states:
"Right faith in the patriarchal section. does not believe in conditioned causes or effects.
There is no need to search elsewhere.
Since time immemorial, it has been innate in everyone."
Jinul further believed that the true nature of all people is unchanging and that their minds are ultimately numinous and marked by awareness, even when seemingly in a state of delusion. "In the present condensation, I treat the school of Ho-tse first, primarily so that people who are practicing meditation will be able to awaken first to the fact that, whether deluded or awakened, their own minds are numinous, aware, and never dark and their nature is unchanging.".