[Buddha-l] Sosan Taesa

[curt]

I am researching the 16th century Korean Zen Master
Sosan Taesa (aka Seosan Daesa, aka Seosan Hyujeong).
There are two really interesting things about him, in
my opinion:

(1) He wrote a "Handbook for Zen Students" that is still
in use by Korean Buddhists today. According to my limited
understanding of Yogacara this handbook is positively dripping
with the influence of that school. While this is not necessarily
surprising considering the fact that Bodhidharma came to
China armed with the Lankavatara Sutra - nevertheless I have
never seen a Zen text that is so obviously "Yogacarin". This
could be due to my limited understanding of Yogacara (ie,
I don't necessarily know what to look for) - but when I read
the section in Paul Williams "Buddhist Thought" about Yogacara
it was immediately obvious to me that that Sosan Taesa's
"Handbook" was directly inspired by this school.
(2) He led a guerrilla army against the Japanese invasion of
Korea late in the sixteenth century. His status as a national
hero because of this eclipses his fame as a Zen Master. From
what I have read all present day Korean Zen teachers trace their
lineage back to this guerrilla commander - who only gave
"transmission" to the four students who served as his lieutenants
in the war.

Unfortunately right now I don't speak or read Korean (I hope to
remedy that some day) - the English sources I have found on
Sosan Taesa are limited to:
(1) A Harvard masters thesis by Rebbecca Bernen which includes
a complete English translation of the Handbook.
(2) An "Overview of Korean Buddhism" by Charles Muller,
which is available on-line at:
http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/kor-bud/korbud-overview.html
(3) The book "Thousand Peaks" by Mu Soeng, which contains
the first third of the Handbook and historical material on Sosan
Taesa.
(4) A book entitled "Paragon of Zen House" which is attributed
to Seosan Hyujeong (whom I think is the same person as Sosan
Taesa) which is available in an English translation by Ohyun Park.

Of these four I have 2 &3 - I just ordered 4 through abebooks.com,
and I am trying to figure out how to get ahold of Bernen's thesis.
Does anyone out there know of other sources of information about
Sosan Taesa in English??

- Curt