Il-yeon
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Il-yeon (; 1206–1289), also spelled Iryeon, was a Korean Buddhist monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor () during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was either Kim Gyeong-myeong () or Jeon Gyeon-myeong (), and his courtesy name was Hoe-yeon ().
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- Korean name/auto.hangul
- %_일연
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 一然
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Kim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Goryeo
- Place of birth
- Gyeongsan
- Place of death
- Gunwi County
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Notable work
- Samguk Yusa
- Image
- Portraits of kings at Tongiljeon.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1206-01-01
- date of death
- 1289-07-00
- cause of death
- disease
- writing language
- Classical Chinese
- religious name
- 견명
- posthumous name
- 보각
- art name
- 목암
- courtesy name
- 회연
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Il-yeon (; 1206–1289), also spelled Iryeon, was a Korean Buddhist monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor () during the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was either Kim Gyeong-myeong () or Jeon Gyeon-myeong (), and his courtesy name was Hoe-yeon ().
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Il-yeon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.