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{{Short description|910–918 state in East Asia}}
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|native_name = {{lang|ko|후고구려 (後高句麗)}}<br />{{small|''Hugoguryeo''}}<hr />{{lang|ko|고려 (高麗)}}<br />{{small|''Goryeo''}}<hr />{{lang|ko|마진 (摩震)}}<br />{{small|''Majin''}}<hr />{{lang|ko|태봉 (泰封)}}<br />{{small|''Taebong''}}
|conventional_long_name = Later Goguryeo
|common_name = Taebong
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|government_type  = [[Buddhist]] [[Theocratic]] [[monarchy]]
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|year_start  = 901
|year_end    = 918
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|event_start = Establishment
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|event_end   = Fall
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|p1          = Unified Silla
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|s1          = Goryeo Dynasty
|flag_s1    = Royal Flag of Goryeo bonggi.svg
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|image_map    =  History of Korea-Later three Kingdoms Period-915 CE.gif
|image_map_caption  = Taebong at its height in 915.
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|capital          = [[Kaesong|Songak]] (901–905), [[Cheorwon County (Korea)|Cheorwon]] (905–918)
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|common_languages = [[Old Korean]],<br/>[[Classical Chinese]] <small>(literary)</small>
|religion         = [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] ([[state religion]]),<br/>[[Korean Confucianism|Confucianism]],<br/>[[Korean Taoism|Taoism]],<br/>[[Korean Shamanism|Shamanism]]
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|title_leader = [[List of Monarchs of Korea|King]]
|leader1      = [[Kung Ye]]
|year_leader1 = 901–918
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|today      = [[South Korea]]<br>[[North Korea]]
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{{Infobox Korean name
|hangul=고려 (901–904)<br/>마진 (904–911)<br/>태봉 (911–918)
|hanja=高麗 (901–904)<br/>摩震 (904–911)<br/>泰封 (911–918)
|rr=Goryeo (901–904)<br/>Majin (904–911)<br/>Taebong (911–918)
|mr=Koryŏ (901–904)<br/>Majin (904–911)<br/>T'aebong (911–918)
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{{History of Korea}}
'''Taebong''' ({{Korean|태봉|泰封}}; {{IPA|ko|tʰɛ.boŋ}}) was a state established by [[Kung Ye]] ({{Korean|궁예|弓裔}}) on the [[Korean Peninsula]] in 901 during the [[Later Three Kingdoms]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000863352|title=Taebong|website=[[Doopedia]]}}</ref>
==Name==
The state's initial name was '''Goryeo''', after the official name of [[Goguryeo]], a previous state in [[Manchuria]] and the northern [[Korean Peninsula]], from the 5th century. After suggestion by Ajitae, Kung Ye changed the state's name to '''Majin''' (from maha jindan) in 904<!--
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[[ko:후삼국 시대#연표]] says in 901-->, and eventually to '''Taebong''' in 911. When Wang Kon overthrew Kung Ye’s regime and founded the [[Goryeo|Goryeo dynasty]], he restored its original name.
To distinguish Kung Ye's state from Wang Kon's state, later historians call this state '''Later Goguryeo''' ('''Hugoguryeo''') or '''Taebong''', its final name.
==History==
Taebong was established with the support of the rebellious Silla people, the mixed Goguryeo-Lelang people.
According to legend, Kung Ye was a son of either [[Heonan of Silla|King Heonan]] or [[Gyeongmun of Silla|King Gyeongmun of Silla]]. A [[fortune-telling|soothsayer]] prophesied that the newborn baby would bring disaster to [[Silla]] state, so the king ordered his servants to kill him. However, his nanny hid Kung Ye and raised him secretly.<ref>{{cite book|last1=조|first1=인성|title=태봉의 궁예정권|date=2007|publisher=Pureun Yeoksa|location=Seoul|isbn=9788991510609|edition=Cheopan.}}</ref> He joined [[Yang Kil]]'s rebellion force in 892. Silla, after nearly a millennium as a centralized kingdom, was quickly declining, and Kung Ye instigated his own rebellion and absorbed Wang Kon's forces at [[Kaesong|Songak]]. In 898, He set up the capital in Songak. He eventually defeated Yang Kil and other local military lords and warlords in central Korea to proclaim himself king in 901.
Kung Ye transferred the capital from Songak to [[Cheorwon County|Cheorwon]] in 905. Taebong at its peak consisted of territory in the present-day provinces of [[North Hwanghae Province|North]] and [[South Hwanghae]], [[Gyeonggi Province|Gyeonggi]], [[Gangwon Province (South Korea)|Gangwon]]/[[Kangwon Province (North Korea)|Kangwon]], [[Pyongyang]], [[North Chungcheong Province|North Chungcheong]] and the southern part of [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]].
In his later days, Kung Ye proclaimed himself a [[Buddhahood|Buddha]] and became a tyrant who sentenced death to anyone opposing him, including his own wife. Lady Gang. As a result, in 918 four of his own generals—[[Hong Yu (Goryeo)|Hong Yu]], [[Pae Hyŏn-gyŏng]], [[Sin Sung-gyŏm]] and [[Pok Chigyŏm]]—overthrew Taebong and installed Wang Kon as King Taejo.<ref>궁예, 디지털한국학 {{cite web |url=http://www.koreandb.net/General/person/p151_00746.htm |title= 궁예 - 한국의 명장 - 디지털한국학 |access-date=2008-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117101547/http://www.koreandb.net/General/person/p151_00746.htm |archive-date=2008-01-17 }}</ref>
Soon thereafter, [[Goryeo]] was established. Taebong influenced Goryeo culturally. Kung Ye was originally a [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]]. He encouraged [[Buddhism]] and changed the manners of national ceremonies Buddhist, including the Palgwanhoe (팔관회, 八關會) and Seokdeungnong (석등롱, 石燈籠, Stone lantern). These changes survived the death of Kung Ye and the fall of Taebong.
==See also==
*[[History of Korea]]
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