The Foresight of Dark Knowing : : Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea /

The Foresight of Dark Knowing : : Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-Modern Korea / / John Jorgensen; ed. by Robert E. Buswell.

Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392-1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and...

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VerfasserIn:
Jorgensen, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Buswell, Robert E.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Translator's Introduction
  • Historical Background
  • History of the Mantic Arts
  • Early Korea: From the Beginnings to the Advent of Koryŏ
  • Koryŏ
  • Chosŏn
  • Conclusion
  • Part II. Translation
  • Translator's Note
  • 1. Predictions of Kam
  • 2. Yin-Yang Predictions on the Central Palace
  • 3. The Numbers of the Central Palace
  • 4. Secret Records/Predictions of the Mountains and Forests of the Sam Han
  • 5. Secret Predictions of Muhak
  • 6. History Discussions of Five Hundred [Years]
  • 7. Secret Record of the History of the Discussions of Five Hundred [Years]
  • 8. Secret Record/Prediction of Tosŏn
  • 9. Secret Predictions of Chŏng Pukch'ang
  • 10. Secret Predictions of Nam Sago
  • 11. The Ten Excellent Sites for Protection and Good Luck
  • 12. Secret Predictions of Great Master Sŏsan
  • 13. Secret Predictions of Du Shicong
  • 14. Refuge Locations
  • 15. Record of the Journey on Hwa'ak Road
  • 16. Record of the Journey on the Road to Puktu
  • 17. The Method of the Changing Numbers of the Nine Mansions
  • 18. Predictions of Ongnyongja
  • 19. Predictions Hidden in the House of Mr. Yi of Kyŏngju
  • 20. The Poem of Samdobong
  • 21. Untitled
  • 22. Predictions Hidden in the House of Master Yi of Sŏ'gye
  • 23. Hidden Predictions of T'ojŏng's Family
  • 24. Secret Predictions of Yi T'ojŏng
  • 25. Poem of the Summer Grains of Kap-o
  • 26. The Predictions of Kam
  • 27. Teachings of Master Yixing
  • 28. The Foresight of Dark Knowing
  • 29. Predictions of Chŏng Sun'ong
  • 30. Predictions of the Grass Hermitage
  • 31. Predictions of the Immortal Nang
  • 32. Ongnyongja on Ch'ŏnghak-dong
  • Appendix: The Kap-Cha Cycle
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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