Beopseongge
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The Beopseongge (Korean: 법성게; Hanja: 法性偈) or Hwaeom ilseung beopgye do (Diagram of the Avataṃsaka Single Vehicle Dharmadhātu) (Korean: 화엄일승법계도; Hanja: 華嚴一乘法界圖) is a Buddhist text created by Uisang, Korean monk of the Silla period. The title is rendered in English as "The Song of Dharma Nature". This monumental script is widely known in Korean Seon Buddhism and Japanese Zen and Chinese Chan. Beopseongge is recorded on not only Tripitaka Koreana in Korea but Taishō Tripiṭaka in Japan.[1]
The chart is written in 210 letters only. And letters are placed in 54 squared maze shaped chart that has no end. Since this maze shaped chart was made with the symbols and meanings of dharma and dharani, some monks used as mystic stamp like talisman for lay people.
This type of gatha was widely used in Tang dynasty China and Silla dynasty Korea. It was the time when wooden block printing carved with maze shape and poem on it, called 'Bansi (盤詩)', was flourished.
Recently used as logo of Haeinsa, one of the Triple Gem (the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha) temples in South Korea. The name or the temple 'Haein' also came from the gatha's 'Hae-in samadhi'.[2]