{{Short description|Korean Buddhist monk (1206–1289)}} {{Infobox Korean name/auto |hangul=%_일연 |hanja=一然 |image=}} '''Il-yeon''' ({{Korean|hangul=일연}}; 1206–1289), also spelled '''Iryeon''', was a [[Korean Buddhism|Korean Buddhist]] monk and All-Enlightened National Preceptor ({{korean|labels=no|hangul=보각국사|hanja=普覺國師}}) during the [[Goryeo]] Dynasty of Korea. His birth name was either '''Kim Gyeong-myeong''' ({{lang|ko-Hani|金景明}}) or '''Jeon Gyeon-myeong''' ({{lang|ko-Hani|全見明}}), and his [[courtesy name]] was Hoe-yeon ({{lang|ko-Hani|晦然}}).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il Yeon, the Author of [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms] |url=http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/contents_view.htm?lang=e&menu_cate=history&id=&board_seq=60610&page=22&board_code= |access-date=2023-09-04 |website=world.kbs.co.kr |language=en}}</ref>
He became a monk at the temple Muryangsa at the age of nine and passed the [[Korean Buddhism#Seon|Seon]] [[gwageo|national examination]] at 22. At 54, he was given the rank of Great Teacher. When he was 78, King [[Chungnyeol of Goryeo|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 around 80 volumes on Buddhist topics. Today only one book of his survives: ''[[Samguk Yusa|Samguk yusa]]'', which is not mentioned in the inscription formally.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Mark |date=26 October 2016 |title=Samguk Yusa |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Samguk_Yusa/ |access-date=4 September 2023 |website=World History}}</ref>
==See also== *[[List of Goryeo people]] *[[History of Korea]]
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