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Gakhun

Goryeo monk under King Gojong who wrote the Haedong goseungjeon by royal order

In 1215, by royal command, he compiled the Haedong goseungjeon, biographies of eminent monks since the Three Kingdoms. Only part of it survives; it is a source for how Buddhism reached Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. Written under the military regime, it stands with the later Samguk yusa as a record of Three Kingdoms Buddhism.

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1215Gakhun Compiles the Haedong goseungjeonauthor
The monk Gakhun, by order of King Gojong, wrote the Haedong goseungjeon, biographies of eminent monks of the Three Kingdoms.

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King Gojong of Goryeo1192 – 1259
Twenty-third king of Goryeo, who reigned through the Mongol invasions from Ganghwa Island

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Writing Korean HistoryAD 375 – 1931
From the Seogi, Guksa and Sinjip to the Joseon sanggosa — history-writing as royal display, Confucian record, assertion of independence and nationalist scholarship