WON-HYO
Movements - 28
Ready Posture - CLOSED READY STANCE A




PATTERN MEANING

WON-HYO was the noted monk who introduced Buddhism to the Silla Dynasty
in the year of 686 A.D.
Close Ready
stance A
Move the left foot
to B, forming a
right L- stance
toward B while
executing a twin
forearm block
Execute a high
inward strike to B
with the right
knifehand while
bringing the left
side fist in front of
the right shoulder,
while maintaining
a right L - stance
toward B
Execute a middle
punch to B with
the left fist while
forming a left fixed
stance toward  B,
slipping the left
foot to B
Bring the left foot
to the right foot,
and then move
the right foot to A,
forming a left L-
stance toward A
while executing a
twin forearm block
Execute a high
inward strike to A
with the left
knifehand while
bringing the right
side  fist in front of
the left shoulder,
maintaining a left
L - stance toward
A
Execute a middle
punch to A with
the right fist while
forming a right
fixed stance
toward A, slipping
the right foot to A
Bring the right
foot to the left
foot, and then
turn the face
toward D while
forming a right
bending ready
stance A toward D
Execute a middle
side piercing kick
to D with the left
foot
Lower the left foot
to D, forming a
right
L - stance toward
D while executing
a middle guarding
block to D with a
knifehand
Move the right
foot to D, forming
a left
L - stance toward
D while executing
a middle guarding
block to D with a
knifehand
Execute a high
inward strike to E
with the right
knifehand,
bringing the left
side fist in front of
the right shoulder
while maintaining
a right L - stance
toward E
Move the left foot
to E, turning
counter-clockwise
to form a right L -
stance toward E,
at the same time
executing a twin
forearm block
Move the right
foot to D, forming
a right walking
stance toward D
while executing a
middle thrust to D
with the right
straight fingertip
Move the left foot
to D, forming a
right
L - stance toward
D while executing
a middle guarding
block to D with a
knifehand
Execute a middle
punch to E with
the left fist while
forming a left fixed
stance toward E,
slipping the left
foot to E
Bring the left foot
to the right foot,
and then move
the right foot to F,
forming a L -
stance toward F
while executing a
twin forearm block
Execute a high
inward strike to F
with the left
knifehand,
bringing the right
side fist in front of
the left shoulder
while maintaining
a left L - stance
toward F
Execute a middle
punch to F with
the right fist while
forming a right
fixed stance
toward F, slipping
the right foot to F
Bring the right
foot to the left
foot, and then
move the left foot
to C, forming a left
walking stance
toward C while
executing a
circular block to
CF with the right
inner forearm
Execute a low
front snap kick to
C with the right
foot keeping the
position of the
hands as they
were in 19
Lower the right
foot to C, forming
a right walking
stance toward C
while executing a
middle punch to C
with the left fist
Execute a circular
block to CE with
the left inner
forearm while
maintaining a right
walking stance
toward C
Execute a low
front snap kick to
C with the left
fgoot, keeping the
position of the
hands as they
were in 22
Lower the left foot
to C, forming a left
walking stance
toward C while
executing a
middle punch to C
with the right fist
Turn the face
toward C, forming
a left bending
ready stance A
toward C
Execute a middle
side piercing kick
to C with the right
foot
Lower the right
foot on line CD,
and then move
the left foot to B,
turning counter-
clockwise to form
a right L - stance
toward B, at the
same time
executing a
middle guarding
block to B with the
forearm
Bring the left foot
to the right foot,
and then move
the right foot to A,
forming a left L-
stance toward A
while executing a
middle guarding
block to A with the
forearm
Bring the right
foot back to ready
posture
Won-Hyo
Wonhyo (617 - 686) was one of the leading thinkers, writers and commentators of the Korean
Buddhist tradition.

With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the beginning of the
Unified Silla, Wonhyo played a vital role in the reception and assimilation of the broad range
of doctrinal Buddhist streams that flowed into the Korean peninsula at the time. Wonhyo
was most interested in, and affected by Tathāgatagarbha, Yogācāra and Hwaom thought.
However, in his extensive scholarly works, composed as commentaries and essays, he
embraced the whole spectrum of the Buddhist teachings which were received in Korea,
including such schools as Pure Land, Nirvana , Sanlun and Tiantai (Lotus Sūtra school).

He wrote commentaries on virtually all of the most influential Mahāyāna scriptures,
altogether including over eighty works in over two hundred fascicles. Among his most
influential works were the commentaries he wrote on the Awakening of Faith, Nirvana Sutra
and Vajrasamādhi Sutra, along with his exposition on the meaning of the two hindrances,
the ijangui. These were treated with utmost respect by leading Buddhist scholars in China
and Japan, and served to help in placing the Awakening of Faith as the most influential text
in the Korean tradition.

Wonhyo spent the earlier part of his career as a monk. In 661 he and a close friend - Uisang
(625–702, founder of the Korean Hwaom school) - were traveling to China where they hoped
to study Buddhism further. Somewhere in the region of Baekje the pair were caught in a
heavy downpour and forced to take shelter in what they believed to be an earthen sanctuary.
During the night Wonhyo was overcome with thirst, and reaching out grasped what he
perceived to be a gourd, and drinking from it was refreshed with a draught of cool,
refreshing water. Upon waking the next morning, however, the companions discovered
much to their amazement that their shelter was in fact an ancient tomb littered with human
skulls, and the vessel from which Wonhyo had drinken was in fact a human skull full of
brackish water. Moved by the experience of believing a gruesome site to be a comfortable
haven, and skull of mildewy water a refreshing drink, Wonhyo was astonished at the power
of the human mind to transform reality. After this "consciousness-only" enlightenment
experience, he left the priesthood and turned to the spreading of the Buddhadharma as a
layman. Because of this aspect of his character, Wonhyo ended up becoming a popular folk
hero in Korea. He was a colleague and friend of the influential Silla Hwaom monk Uisang,
and an important result of their combined works was the establishment of Hwaeom as the
dominant stream of doctrinal thought on the Korean peninsula. Wonhyo's twenty-three
extant works are currently in the process of being translated into English as a joint project
between Dongguk University and State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Wonhyo had a son, Seol Chong, who is considered to be one of the great Confucian
scholars of Silla.