Excavations and investigations into such materials as anthologies, ancient writings and epigraphs of the Koryo Dynasty have recently become mere active. The efforts have been rewarded with good results, thus complemenling the cursory annals of the per...
Excavations and investigations into such materials as anthologies, ancient writings and epigraphs of the Koryo Dynasty have recently become mere active. The efforts have been rewarded with good results, thus complemenling the cursory annals of the period.
Keeping in step with this tendency, we excavated and investigated materials which were related to the Koryo period that appeared in the Chinese anthologies. That materials are two works of Weisu, an intellectual of the Yuan Dynatsy in China. Tehy are records of historic facts that were found in Singwang Temple of Haeju and Bogwang Temple of Imju. They greatly help to understand some part of the history of Koryo Buddhism; that is, they help to make clear the foundation story and vicissitudes of the two temples and to reflect the fact that the monks of the temples went to Yuan and associated with intellectuals and high-ranking monks there. The monks from the two temples then introduced a new sect of Buddhism, Imje-jong into Koryo.