[KS] 5th 14th 23rd

[Frank Hoffmann]

Dear Werner,
the 한국세시풍속사전 points us to Jin period Guo Pu 郭璞 (276-324) as a 
possible source (as mentioned in the 承政院日記) for the 三敗日 quote 
in your 備邊司謄錄. 
--> goo.gl/MvuL0Q
--> http://sjw.history.go.kr/id/sjw-b00100140-02000

That would then further point to Daoist mystics, rather than any 
Buddhist concepts.
There seem to be a full translations out there of Guo Pu's remaining 
texts ... I see the 三敗日 phrase in an original, but not the 
'separated' days 5 - 14 - 23. Maybe, just speculating, if the original 
source in Korea was the Guo Pu text back during Koryŏ times, that may 
then have taken on its own Daoist mythology -- and given that Koryŏ was 
an all-Buddhist kingdom, the possibility that the Buddhist "Nine 
influences" (Nahagraha) you mentioned could well have played a role.

Best,
Frank



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