[KS] 5th 14th 23rd

[Werner Sasse]

Dear Frank,

for Guo Pu as far as I can see, the  ???  was an established fact and he is not the "source". And as the dates are also not mentioned in any of the texts I found, why start with 5, and why sequence of 9?

Daoist did not strike me as unusual in Koryo, just as the mix of Buddhism and Daoism would not.

Questions still open.

By the way "influences" for Nahagraha is a bit too abstract for my taste, I prefer "influencers", meaning points in the cosmos exerting influences.

Keep searching your encyclopedic mind, please,

Best, Werner


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Subject: Re: [KS] 5th 14th 23rd

Dear Werner,
the ???????? points us to Jin period Guo Pu ?? (276-324) as a
possible source (as mentioned in the ?????) for the ??? quote
in your ?????.
--> 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 ??? 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 Koryo times, that may
then have taken on its own Daoist mythology -- and given that Koryo 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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