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Daejangjeon. Geumsansadaejangjeon (Daejangjeon Hall of Geumsansa Temple). Daejangjeon at Geumsansa was originally an octagonal wooden pagoda erected in the 600s CE during the Baekje period. It was rebuilt in 1635 as a hall, during the Joseon period (July 1392 – August 1910) and in 1922 was moved to its present location. Visible on the roof ...
At 1,650 m²/17,760 ft², Bongjeongsa is the largest temple in Andong, and is the site of the oldest wooden building, Geungnakjeon, in Korea. [2] There are 10 buildings at the main temple and a total of 9 other buildings at Bongjeongsa's two sub temples found to the east and west of the main temple complex.
It is often enshrined in a special place called "tae sil". In 1783, the placenta of Munhyoseoja, the crown prince of Joseon, was enshrined at Yongmunsa Temple in Yecheon, Gyeongbuk Province. The tae sil was located 50 meters away from Duunam Temple, near the back mountain of Daejangjeon. [1]
Woljeongsa Octagonal Nine Storey Stone Pagoda believed to have been constructed in the 10th century. Woljeonsa'a Octagonal Nine Storey Stone Pagoda, called the Sari-pagoda (relic pagoda) believed to have been constructed in the 10th century, is a multi-angled stone pagoda standing 15.2 meters/50 foot high and is representative of the multi-storied pagodas popular during the Goryo Period ...
Sanjūsangen-dō was founded by the famous samurai and politician Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) in 1164 for the cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa. [1] [2] He built the temple in the emperor's own compound Hōjūji-dono in order to gain a noble title, that of Chancellor of the Realm, becoming the first samurai to do so.
Songgwangsa (Korean: 송광사; Hanja: 松廣寺; translation: Spreading Pine Temple; [1] alternates: Songgwang-sa, or Songgwang Sa, or Songkwangsa; [2] also known as: Piney Expanse Monastery; originally: Gilsangsa), one of the three jewels of Seon Buddhism, [3] is located in South Jeolla Province [4] on Mount Jogye on the Korean Peninsula.
The temple was eventually rebuilt in 1457 but was destroyed again in 1772, 1915, and 1950, all due to fire. Baekdamsa Temple was established by Ven. Jajang Yulsa in 647 in Hangye-ri under the name Hangyesa (寒溪寺) Temple. After its founding, the name changed several times to Unheungsa, Samwonsa, Seongusa and Yeongchwisa.
Jikjisa was established in 418 by Preceptor Ado. Buddhism, a religion originating in what is now India, was transmitted to Korea via China in the late 4th century. [1] The Samguk yusa records Ado among 3 monks who first brought Buddhist teaching, or Dharma, to Korea: Malananta (late 4th century) - an Indian Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism to Baekje in the southern Korean peninsula, Sundo-a ...