Chungcheong
Chungcheong holds Beopjusa and Magoksa, both inscribed among the Sansa mountain monasteries, and Guinsa, the head temple of the Cheontae order, opened in 1945. The Jungakdan at Sinwonsa on Gyeryongsan is the one surviving altar of those the state kept for the mountain deities, and Hyeonchungsa in Asan is the shrine to Admiral Yi Sun-sin.
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TempleBeopjusa
- Miscellaneous
Founded in 553 and grown into the centre of Maitreya devotion, holding the only wooden pagoda in Korea.
TempleMagoksa
A thousand-year-old temple on Taehwasan said to have been founded by Jajang, where two main halls stand one behind the other up the slope.
TempleSudeoksa, Deoksungsan
A temple whose main hall is one of the oldest buildings in Korea whose date of construction is certainly known.
TempleGuinsa
The head temple of the Cheontae Order, founded in 1945, with a five-storey concrete hall that seats ten thousand.
TempleGwanchoksa, Banyasan
Where a stone Maitreya took thirty-seven years to carve and could not be stood up until someone watched two children playing in mud.
TempleGapsa, Gyeryongsan
A Three Kingdoms temple with three separate accounts of its founding, and where Yeonggyu took ordination.
TempleDonghaksa, Gyeryongsan
Where rites were held to summon the spirits of the six martyred ministers and of King Danjong, and where one of Korea’s foremost seminaries for nuns stands.
TempleMuryangsa, Mansusan
The temple where Kim Si-seup spent his last years and died.
TempleGaesimsa, Sangwangsan
A temple whose founding record holds two incompatible dates inside a single sentence, so that its year cannot be established.
Historic SiteHyeonchungsa
A shrine raised in 1706 to honour Admiral Yi Sun-sin, left to decay under colonial rule and rebuilt in 1932 by public subscription.
TempleJungakdan, Sinwonsa
- Wish Fulfillment
The only survivor of the three royal mountain-god altars of Joseon stands in the grounds of Sinwonsa on Gyeryongsan.
TempleGanwolam
The hermitage where Muhak Daesa is said to have awakened on seeing the moon, cut off by the tide and reachable again when it falls.
TempleGoransa
A temple rebuilt by Baekje’s descendants after the kingdom fell, named for the rare fern growing on the cliff behind it.