# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woncheuk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:41:39.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woncheuk"
name: "Woncheuk"
slug: "woncheuk"
description: "Woncheuk was a Korean Buddhist monk who worked in seventh century China. Woncheuk was a follower of Paramārtha (499–569) and the Shelun school of Yogacara. This school defended the view that there was a ninth consciousness called the \"pure consciousness\" (amalavijñāna), as opposed to just the eight consciousnesses of classical Yogacara. This position had been rejected by Xuanzang and Kuiji. Woncheuk later became a student of Xuanzang and worked in his translation team. Woncheuk's works attempt to reconcile the two traditions of East Asian Yogacara and often diverges from the interpretations of Xuanzang and Kuiji in favor of the views of Paramārtha."
tagline: "Silla Buddhist monk (613–696)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%EC%9B%90%EC%B8%A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "613"
deathDate: "696"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.359361333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%86%E6%B5%8B"
    title: "圆测"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woncheuk"
    title: "Woncheuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%86%E6%B8%AC"
    title: "円測"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9B%90%EC%B8%A1"
    title: "원측"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woncheuk"
    title: "Woncheuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%8Fnch'%C5%ADk"
    title: "Wŏnch'ŭk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woncheuk"
    title: "Woncheuk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706529"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump