This book introduces ¿isang (625-702), a seminal figure in East Asian religion who founded the Korean Hwäm school of Buddhism and will be of interest to researchers in a variety of fields, such as Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Korean Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Globalization Studies.

Hyangsoon Yi is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, USA. Her research interests include Buddhist aesthetics in literature and visual arts, Korean Buddhist film, history of Korean Buddhist Nuns, women's monastic practice tradition, and Buddhism and Western literature.

Dal Yong Jin is a distinguished SFU professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Canada. His major research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books, journal articles, and book chapters. He is the founding book series editor of Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia.

Introduction: PART I: The Ocean Seal Diagram in Theory and Praxis Chapter 1: ¿isang's Understanding of the Avatamsaka-S¿tra as Seen Through the Seal-Diagram Symbolizing the Dharma Realm of the One Vehicle; Chapter 2: The Heart-Smile Training: The Compassion-Based Intervention Program of Korean S¿n in the Al Digital Era; Chapter 3: From Daily Devotions to Ceremonial Paths and Talismans: The Functions of ¿isang's Seal Diagram in Contemporary Korean Buddhism PART II: Transcultural Dialogue with ¿isang Chapter 4: A Whiteheadian Process Critique of Huayan Buddhism: Creative Synthesis and Emergent Novelty; Chapter 5: Huayan Buddhism; Chapter 6: Technics and the Ocean Seal PART III: ¿isang and Digitality Chapter 7: The Internet as a Technological Manifestation of Indra's Net: ¿isang's Ocean Seal as a Unifying Model for Art, Religion, Metaphysics and Technology; Chapter 8: The Mediatization of Buddhism in Digital Media: The Contemporary Reflection of ¿isang's Hwäm Thought in Video Games; Chapter 9: The Apparition of an Appearance: Artist Notes on the Performance of Wisdom Mark Amerika PART IV: Time and Salvation in the Ocean Seal Chapter 10: Farewell"; Chapter 11: ; Postscript; Index