Silla (??) in the southeast. During the second half of the fourth century, the Goguryeo king Sosurim (??? r. 371-383) began to develop close ties with the former Qin, ruled at the time by Fujian (?? r. 357-384), and these ties further contributed to the reception of culture into the Korean peninsula. The official date for the introduction of Buddhism into Goguryeo is 372, with the dispatch of the monk Sundo (??; Ch. Shundao) by Fujian to the court of Sosurim with scriptures and Buddhist images. Shortly afterward, in 384, the Serindian monk Maranant’a (M?l?nanda ????) arrived to Baekje from the Eastern Chin. Due to Silla’s relatively isolated geographical location, the official date for its reception of Buddhism was a bit later, most likely during the fifth century.the themes of the Mah?parinirv?na-s?tra, and initially popular in Silla. Toward the end of the three kingdoms period, the Weonyung (Ch. Yuanrong; ??? ) school, which focused on the actualization of the metaphysics of interpenetration as found in the Huayan jing ???, would outstrip most of the other schools as a field of academic study, becoming especially popular with the educated aristocracy. This school, later known in Korea as Hwaeom (Ch. Huayan; ?? ?), would end up becoming the most long-lived of the Chinese imported schools, having strong affinities with the indigenous Korean school of Buddhist thought, called Beopseong (discussed below).

During the latter Three Kingdoms Period, large numbers of monks traveled to China to become versed in the buddhadharma. One of the earliest eminent monks from Goguryeo was