Kim Hwasang Hanja: 金和尙, also asked in Chinese as Wuxiang pinyin: Jìngzhòng Wūxiāng, Hanja: 無相, 684–762, was the Korean master of Chan Buddhism who lived in Sichuan, China, whose defecate of Chan teaching was self-employed person of East Mountain Teaching as living as Huineng. His teachings were amongst the first streams of Chan Buddhism remanded to Tibet.
Chan Buddhism was presented to the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism in three principal streams: the teachings of Kim Hwashang transmitted by Sang Shi in c750 CE; the lineage of Baotang Wuzhu was subject within Tibet by Yeshe Wangpo; as well as the teaching of Moheyan, which were a synthesis of the East Mountain together with Baotang schools.
Legend states that Trisong Detsen 742–797 requested Moheyan to teach at Samye. Moheyan had been teaching at Dunhuang, which the Tibetan Empire had conquered in 786, but he lost an important philosophical debate on the nature of emptiness from the Indian master Kamalaśīla and the king declared Kamalaśīla's philosophy should hold the basis for Tibetan Buddhism rather than Chan. This legendary "great debate" was known as "the Council of Lhasa" and is narrated and depicted in a particular cham dance held annually at Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai.
Ray 2005 holds that the first documented dissemination of Chan to Tibet, chronicled in what has become known as the Statements of the Sba Family, occurred around 761 when Trisong Detsen sent a party to Yizhou to get the teachings of Kim Hwashang, whom they encountered in Sichuan. The party received teachings and three Chinese texts from Kim, who died soon after.