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| Abstract |

Venerable Sungchol’s Interpretation of the
MahāpranirvāṇaSūtra in the Sermon of One

Hundred Days

Chao, Wei-wei.
Assistant Researcher, Taiwan’s Chinese Medicine Research

Base, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

Venerable Sungchol(1912-93) is a Seon Master in Korea.

The Sermon of One Hundred Days is a quotation that Master
Sungchol teaches what is the Buddhist truth at Haein Temple

in1967. In this Sermon, Master makes a clear narration of the
middle way, the highest principle in Buddhism, and interprets

many sūtras, including MahāpranirvāṇaSūtra. It is an
important sūtra to Master, because he quotes many passages of

this sūtrato support his claim, ‘sudden awakening and sudden
practice’. He uses the middle way to explain some major concepts

in this sūtra, such as buddha nature (buddha-dhātu), the wisdom

of seeing the twelve links of dependent origination, dharma-
dhātu and nirvāṇa, and then they are integrated into the middle