first established in Han's "Whole Mind". In 1924, he became the Chair of the Buddhist youth assembly. The poems published in Han's Nim-ui Chimmuk had been written at Baekdam Temple in the previous year. This book garnered much attention from literary critics and intellectuals at the time. Despite his many other publications, from Chinese poems to sijos and the poems included in Yusim, and novels such as Dark Wind (Heukpung), Regret (Huhoe), Misfortune (Bakmyeong), this collection remains the poet's most significant and enduring literary achievement. In it, love for the motherland plainly appears under the guise of longing for the loved one, as in the poem "I Do Not Know". Han's model for such rhapsodic, long-lined expressions of devotion was Rabindranath Tagore, whose work he knew, and behind Tagore the long Indian tradition of combining mysticism with eroticism. In 2007, he was listed by the Korean Poets' Association among the ten most important modern Korean poets. Poetry in translation Younghill Kang & Frances Keely, Meditations of the Lover, Yonsei University 1970 Jaihiun Kim, Love's Silence and other poems, Vancouver B.C. 1999 Francisca Cho, "Everything Yearned For: Manhae's Poems of Love and Longing", Wisdom Publications 2005 References External links An article discussing Manhae and Baekdam Temple Manhae Memorial Hall 1879 births 1944 deaths Korean independence activists Dongguk University alumni Korean Buddhists 20th-century Korean poets Literature of Korea under Japanese rule Buddhist writers South Korean Buddhist monks Korean philosophers People from Hongseong County Korean male poets Cheongju Han clan 20th-century male writers