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Korean Buddhist monk (1206?1289)
Il-yeon
(
Korean
:
一然
; 1206?1289), also spelled
Iryeon
, was a
Korean Buddhist
monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor (
普覺國師
;
普覺國師
) during the
Goryeo
Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was either
Kim Gyeong-myeong
(
金景明
) or
Jeon Gyeon-myeong
(
全見明
), and his
courtesy name
was Hoe-yeon (
晦然
).
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He became a monk at the temple Muryangsa at the age of nine, and passed the
Seon
national examination
at 22. At 54, he was given the rank of Great Teacher. When he was 78, King
Chungnyeol
offered him a position of rank and tried to make him National Preceptor, but Il-yeon declined. The king again appointed him National Preceptor, and Il-yeon came down to the capital
Kaesong
(then Gaegyeong), but soon returned to the mountains on the pretext that his aged mother was sick. On the eighth day of the seventh month in 1289, he held a conference with various monks, and then died.
Il-yeon is known as a prolific writer, and according to the inscription on his tombstone he wrote some 80 volumes on Buddhist topics. But today only one book of his survives: the
Samguk Yusa
, which is not mentioned in the inscription at all.
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