Han Yong-un

Yong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognized as Korea' s finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country' s most influential political activists in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. Yong-un Han' s Buddhist insights and political passion combine to give his poetry great spiritual power. He describes the complexities of love as beginning in the desire for total union and leading to an illumination of the void or nothingness.