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‪The Buddhist monk Chinul remains one of the major figures in the history of Korean Buddhism, because of his conceptual synthesis of the two main Buddhist currents of his time, scholastic and meditative, and his plural soterio-methodology, which were gradually accepted as the theoretical and practical model within the Buddhist ‪‪sa‪ṃ‪‪gha‪‪ of the Land of the Morning Calm. This contribution presents the meditative practices advocated by this Buddhist master, before examining their singularity, perceptible as a pragmatic acculturation operated in a context marked by the contradiction between the Buddhist ideal and the ambivalent reality of the peninsular‪ ‪sa‪‪ṃ‪‪gha‪‪ of that time.‪