Hwa-Om-Kyung

Hwa-Om-Kyung
Poster for Hwa-Om-Kyung (1993)
Hangul
화엄경
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHwaeomgyeong
McCune–ReischauerHwaŏmgyŏng
Directed byJang Sun-woo
Written byJang Sun-woo
Produced byLee Tae-won
StarringOh Tae-kyung
Won Mi-kyung
CinematographyYou Young-gil
Edited byKim Hyeon
Music byYi Zong-gu
Distributed byTae Heung Films Co., Ltd.
Release date
  • June 26, 1993 (1993-06-26)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box office$564

Hwa-Om-Kyung (also known as Passage to Buddha) is a 1993 South Korean film written and directed by Jang Sun-woo. It is an adaptation of the Avatamsaka Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism.

The movie in 1994 won the now-defunct Alfred Bauer Prize from the Berlin International Film Festival, an honor for a work that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art.