290 pol vanden broucke and sem vermeersch
(someone says 1,000 kn ).^83 Thereupon, Myöngnang continued his
voyage under the ground and arrived at the bottom of a well in his
residence [in Silla]. He donated his house to change it into a temple.
He decorated the stpa and the statues with the gold given to him by
the Dragon King. The brilliance was special. Therefore it was called
Kmgwang[-sa] (gold-glow temple).(According to the Sngjön 84 it is called Kmu-sa ,^85 [but
this] is a mistake).
His hwi 86 was Myöngnang and his cha 87 Kugyuk.^88 He
was the son of Chaeryang ,^89 a sagan 90 of Silla. His mother
was called Lady Namgan.^91 Others say that she was Pöpsngnang
, a daughter of the sop’an 92 Murim 93 of the Kim
clan,^94 and the younger sister of Chajang.^95 [Chaeryang had] three
sons. The eldest son was called Kukkyo Taedök , the second
son »ian Taed ök.^96 Myöngnang was the last. In the beginning,
his mother became pregnant after she had a dream in which she swal-
lowed a blue gem.
[Myöngnang] entered Tang China in the first year of Queen
Söndök^97 and came back in lmi , the ninth year of Zhenguan
.^98 In mujin , the rst year of Zongzhang ,^99 the Tang
(^83) 596.82 kg. See Ogawa 1989, p. 1224.
(^84) “Biography of Monks”. Not identi ed. The Haedong kosng chön?
(^85) Not entered in Yi 1996.
(^86) His personal name. See Pratt & Rutt 1999, pp. 308–309 s.v. Names, personal.
(^87) Name given on coming of age.
(^88) Otherwise unknown.
(^89) Otherwise unknown.
(^90) The eighth rank in the seventeen Silla of ce ranks. See Kim P. 1995, p. 522,
n. 4; 91 KYIK, p. 262.
Otherwise unknown. See Yi 1993, p. 55 s.v. Namgan Puin.
(^92) The third rank in the seventeen Silla of ce ranks. See Kim P. 1995, p. 187,
n. 7.
(^93) The father of the master Chajang (7th century). Mentioned in Chajang’s biography
in the Xu gaoseng zhuan (T.2060.50.639a11) and in the Samguk yusa, vol. 4, part 5, titled
Chajang ch 94 öngnyul (Chajang Establishes the Monastic Rules), HPC, vol. 6, p. 346a3.
Powerful clan which furnished the line of rulers in Silla. See Henthorn 1971,
p. 35. 95
Not mentioned in Chajang’s biographies.
(^96) Kukkyo is otherwise unknown. Taedök, title of monks with great virtue. Cf. Skt.
bhadanta. A monk called »ian is also mentioned in the section on the fourteenth year
of the reign of King Munmu of Silla in the Samguk sagi. See Yi P. 1996, p. 75; Yi
1993, p. 34 s.v. Kukkyo, p. 228 s.v. »ian.
(^97) 632.
(^98) 635, during the reign of the Tang emperor Taizong. »lmi is the cyclical sign.
(^99) 668, during the reign of the Tang emperor Gaozong. Mujin is the cyclical sign.