Abstract

In this article, we focused on the fact that Park Se-chae's 《Dongyoo saurok》 exists in various forms of manuscripts and compared each manuscript. 《Dongyoo saurok》 was a hagiography of Eastern Confucians compiled by Park Se-chae throughout his life with the purpose of preserving records of the origins of Confucianism in the East. Park Se-chae's munin Lee Se-hwan continued his teacher's work, but was unable to publish it. Afterwards, 《Dongyoo saurok》 was distributed in manuscript form. The extant manuscripts of 《Dongyoo saurok》 can be roughly divided into two types. First, there were early manuscripts of 20 fascicles in 10 volumes compiled by Park Se-chae, and second, there were later manuscripts edited by Lee Se-hwan. 《Dongyoo saurok》 encompassed about 700 Eastern Confucian scholars, from Seol chong and Choi Chi-won of Silla to munin of Yi I and Seong hon of Joseon, and it clearly revealed the relationship between teacher and munin. In particular, Park Se-chae attempted to highlight the status of the two schools as the pinnacle of Eastern Confucianism by including Yi I and Seong hon and their munin as the most recent school of 《Dongyoo saurok》. In 《Dongyoo saurok》, a total of about 200 books were used, along with a variety of sentences for which no bibliographic reference was recorded. Among 《Dongyoo saurok》, the munin of Yi I and Seong hon had missing content due to limitations in individual manuscripts. Through comparison between manuscripts, the munin of the two schools were supplemented, and the munin of Yi I and Seong Hon were reconstituted with 85 and 112 people, respectively.

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