Queen of Suffering
A Spiritual History of Korea

NOTES

1. A literatus (pl. literati) is a scholar often involved in government and cultural affairs, thus often a member of the ruling class.

2. A founder of Jaimism.

3. Both Chinese and Korean names are used in the text. Unless noted as above, the names in parentheses are Chinese.

4. Divination by lines and figures formed by scattering earth on a surface.

5. Early written records.

6. Primitive placements of large stones.

7. The Hsien-pi tribe is supposed to have come from Siberia to found a Kingdom in Northern China and in time to merge with the Chinese.

8. A blending of Korean religious traditions in a code of military nobles.

9. Mencius, circa 373-288 B.C., was a Confucianist Sage-philosopher

10. A pale, willow-green color

11. Li Kwang-pi and Kuotzu-i, two loyal ministers of Tang.