Gilsangsa is a small old temple of Songgwangsan in the Seungpyeong hills (modern Songgwangsa, Suncheon).
On the likely course, in Sinjong 3 (1200), month not pinned, Jinul moves the Samadhi and Prajna Society here from Jirisan and has the temple rebuilt; the Chinese Wikipedia says that in 1205 Huijong renames the mountain Jogyesan and the temple Suseonsa (Jinul). The campaign board says the community is still on the road on 1 January; we place Jinul at Jirisan and not on the road, which we could not confirm either way. On 1 January the temple is a modest house; the rebuilding, the gentry's gifts and the community's arrival belong to 1200 to 1205.
Choe's later patronage of the house is recollection [not yet checked against the source].
Who holds it
- Title
- Head of the old Gilsangsa (name not known) until Jinul comes
- 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
- A small old temple and its hill (not known)
How it was acquired
Late Silla, by tradition [not yet checked against the source].
Allies and rivals
Jinul's society; the local gentry and clerks of Seungpyeong are the first patrons.
How things stand that morning
Small and waiting.
Threats
- None known; the move depends on Jinul's decision
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.
In 1200
- Spring 1200, month not pinnedJinul moves the Samadhi and Prajna Society to Songgwangsan.Depends on: Jinul's choice, a quiet road and local patrons Stopped by: Illness, the Jinju rising's disorder in the south-east or a change of plan
Later, on the likely course
- 1205Songgwangsan renamed Jogyesan and the temple Suseonsa by royal act.Depends on: The society's success and the court's favour Stopped by: Choe's displeasure
Places of note
- Gilsangsa: The house
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry gilsangsa-songgwangsan says the community is on the road on 1 January; we put Jinul at Jirisan, month of the move not pinned.
Evidence: English and Chinese Wikipedia for the move and the 1205 renaming.
"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
- Songgwangsa (English Wikipedia)
- Jinul 知訥 (Chinese Wikipedia)
- Jinul (English Wikipedia)
- 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.