frameworks which would govern it for five centuries. Chŏng Tojŏn was born from a noble family, the Bonghwa Chŏng clan (봉화 정씨; 奉化 鄭氏), in Yeongju, Goryeo. His...

moderate reforms, Chŏng soon realized that Yi and some of his more radical supporters, such as Chŏng To-jŏn and Cho Chun, were planning to establish a new...

Kyunyeo (923–973) Uicheon (1055–1101) Jinul (1158–1210) Chŏng Mong-ju (1338–1392) Chŏng To-jŏn (1342–1398) Seo Gyeong-deok (1489–1546) Yi Eon-jeok (1491–1553)...

court through the puppet king, he proceeded to ally himself with Sinjin scholar-officials such as Chŏng To-jŏn and Cho Chun. One of the most widely known...

responsible for Chŏng Mong-ju's assassination, Taejong posthumously honored him as Chief State Councillor, leading to a great irony — Chŏng To-jŏn, whose policies...

Buddhism, is a 1398 Korean Neo-Confucian polemical critique of Buddhism by Chŏng To-jŏn. In this work he carried out his most comprehensive refutation of Buddhism...

Ch'oe Ch'ung Hyŏngnyŏn Chŏng, author of the Kyunyŏ-jŏn Kim Pu-sik Ch'oe Yun-ŭi An Hyang Chŏng Mong-ju Yi Saek Kil Chae Chŏng To-jŏn Kwŏn Kŭn U T'ak Doseon...

one of the "Three Hermit Scholars" devoted to Confucian principles. Many of his disciples, such as Chŏng To-jŏn and Kwŏn Kŭn, used Neo-Confucianism as the...

history, Goryeoguksa (고려국사; 高麗國史), was led by Chŏng To-jŏn and completed in 1396. However, following Chŏng's death during the First Strife of the Princes...

through the puppet king, Yi proceeded to ally himself with members of the Sinjin aristocracy, such as Chŏng To-jŏn and Cho Chun. One of his first acts as...