<div dir="ltr">On the topic of forged books which came up recently (as well as the query I made to this list on the <i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Chaodai-ji</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"> 朝代記 back in February),</span> I have just been reading Sorensen's 2008 book review of Best's <i>A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche</i> (Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.8:2) in which, concerning the <i>Haedong kosUng chOn</i> 海東高僧傳, he says recent scholarship "by John Jorgensen, Jorg Plassen and Gari Ledyard has strongly indicated that there are problems with the authenticity of this work. On the basis of their findings it appears that the work is a late nineteenth-century forgery, most likely from the hand of the controversial Korean monk SasOn also known as Yi Hoegwang".<div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm only familiar with the text through the Peter H. Lee translation, <i>Lives of Eminent Korean Monks</i>, which I unfortunately do not have a copy of currently but in lectures to undergraduates I have been quoting the "Five Secular Injunctions" 世俗五戒 recorded in the biography of WOngwang.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How widely accepted amongst Korean Studies scholars is the doubt concerning its authenticity? Is there any relevant literature as, being a book review, no further references were given?</div></div><div>
<br></div><div>As ever, grateful for any responses.</div><div><br></div><div>sincerely</div><div>Andrew Logie</div></div>