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Haedong Goseungjeon (Lives of Eminent Monks of the Land East of the Sea)海東高僧傳
The oldest collection of monks' lives that survives in Korea. Gakhun made it in 1215 at the king's command, sixty-six years before the Samguk Yusa. It carries the lives of eighteen men — Sundo, the first to come to Goguryeo; Malananta, who crossed over to Baekje; Yeomchok, from whose severed neck white milk is said to have sprung in Silla; Wongwang, who set out the five precepts for the world; and Ariyabalma and Hyeeop, who stayed at Nalanda and ended their days there. How King Jinheung raised up the wonhwa and established the hwarang is set down here as well.
Volumes 1 and 2, which are what now survives, have all been translated (20 entries, 35 paragraphs). The graphs were matched against the source text entry by entry and confirmed to differ by not a single graph. The split notes of the source text are put inside 〔 〕 and kept running on in the body, as was done with the Samguk Yusa. □ is a place where a graph is missing in the source text. The table of contents of volume 1 has 玄彰, but that account is not in this book, and there are a few places where the name written in the contents and the name of the entry do not agree (昙始/曇始, 慧業/惠業, 玄大梵/玄大). All are left as the source text has them.
Complete in one volume
- Hyeondae玄大 · 2 passages · 207 Chinese characters
- Hyeonyu玄遊 · 1 passages · 273 Chinese characters
- Hyeongak玄恪 · 1 passages · 216 Chinese characters
- Hyeryun惠輪 · 1 passages · 183 Chinese characters
- Hyeeop惠業 · 1 passages · 181 Chinese characters
- Ariyabalma阿離耶跋摩 · 1 passages · 220 Chinese characters
- Anham安含 · 2 passages · 921 Chinese characters
- Wongwang圓光 · 3 passages · 1,808 Chinese characters
- Jimyeong智明 · 2 passages · 407 Chinese characters
- Gakdeok覺德 · 1 passages · 345 Chinese characters
- Spreading the teaching, part two — the contents流通一之二 · 2 passages · 79 Chinese characters
- Beopun法雲 · 2 passages · 818 Chinese characters
- Beopgong法空 · 2 passages · 1,451 Chinese characters
- Ado阿道 · 2 passages · 1,427 Chinese characters
- Malananta摩羅難陀 · 2 passages · 651 Chinese characters
- Damsi曇始 · 2 passages · 865 Chinese characters
- Uiyeon義淵 · 2 passages · 793 Chinese characters
- Mangmyeong亡名 · 1 passages · 268 Chinese characters
- Sundo順道 · 2 passages · 506 Chinese characters
- Spreading the Law, part one — the discourse and the roll of names流通一之一 · 3 passages · 1,188 Chinese characters