A community-edited reference biography of King Taejong of Joseon (reigned 1400 to 1418), covering his consolidation of royal power and his Buddhist suppression policy: closing monasteries, redistributing their land and seizing their treasures for the national treasury, leaving 242 Buddhist temples in the country by the reign's end. Its strength is a specific, quotable figure for one king's reign; its limit is that it gives no figure for sect reduction, slave confiscation, or the dynasty's later, further reduction to 36 monasteries.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference encyclopedia, tier 3. Used for the single specific figure, 242 remaining temples, that neither of the other Korea sources this atlas holds gives. Citation
URLhttps://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Taejong_of_Joseon 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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