Sansin (山神), the mountain god
The god of a mountain, housed in a hall inside Buddhist temple grounds across Korea.
Sansin is the god of a particular mountain, and the most visible survival of Korea’s indigenous religion inside Buddhism: temples across the country keep a sansin hall in their grounds, usually set behind or above the main hall. Each mountain has its own. Joseon maintained state altars to three of them — on Myohyangsan, Jirisan and Gyeryongsan — of which only Jungakdan at Sinwonsa on Gyeryongsan still stands. What a mountain god is asked for is rarely written down; the record usually preserves who offered the rite, and when.
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