Buinsa on Palgongsan, north of the Daegu plain, keeps the first Tripitaka: the woodblocks cut from 1011 to 1087 as a vow against the Khitan (English Wikipedia's Tripitaka Koreana page; the campaign board says eighty thousand blocks, a number we did not check and do not repeat as fact).
English Wikipedia says the blocks kept at Buinsa were destroyed by the Mongols in 1232. In 1200 they are whole, and the temple is therefore the realm's woodblock insurance policy, as the campaign board puts it. The second set that survives at Haeinsa is the recarving of 1236 to 1251 (Haeinsa). The campaign board's note merges the two. Buinsa is also a landholder of the Gyeongsang hills, with estates and dependants not known to me; Jinul's society first formed at Geodongsa on Palgongsan in 1190 (Jinul), so the mountain is the centre of the reform movement of the 1190s.
Who holds it
- Title
- Abbot of Buinsa (name not known)
- Confidence
- low
No source we could read names the head of the house in 1200
Overlord
The king; in fact Choe Chung-heon's government
What it holds
- The temple and the first Tripitaka's blocks
- Hill estates (not known)
How it was acquired
Seat of the first Tripitaka from the 11th century [not yet checked against the source].
How things stand that morning
Whole and quiet; the blocks are intact.
Wealth
The prestige of the canon; estates not known.
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- 1232The Mongols burn Buinsa and the first Tripitaka.Depends on: The Mongol invasions of 1231 onward Stopped by: Not in play in 1200
Places of note
- Buinsa: The house
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry buinsa merges the first Tripitaka (Buinsa, burned 1232) with the 81,000 blocks of Haeinsa (second set, 1236 to 1251); here they are kept apart.
Evidence: English Wikipedia's Tripitaka Koreana page for the dates of the first set and its loss in 1232.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Circle round the temple site.
Primary sources for Goryeo
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- History of Goryeo, Jeong Inji (鄭麟趾), Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (completed 1451, from the Goryeo veritable records and earlier drafts). The official history of Goryeo, compiled by the Joseon state from the lost Goryeo veritable records. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
- Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country (Yi Gyu-bo), Yi Gyu-bo (李奎報) (poems and prose from the 1190s to 1241; collected and printed by his son in 1241, with a supplement in 1242). The collected poems, letters, memorials and essays of a Goryeo scholar who was thirty-two and still seeking office in 1200. Read online
2 more in the sources library for Korea and Japan.
Sources and studies
- Tripitaka Koreana (English Wikipedia)
- Goryeosa, Goryeosa jeoryo, Samguk yusa, Lee Ki-baik, Shultz: not opened in this run (Wikisource could not be reached); facts marked recollection come from these as remembered
- Sheet brief KJA_BRIEF.md and the OMNIA board notes (leads, not sources)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.