Gangwon
Most of what this region holds sits high on a mountain. Odaesan has Sangwonsa and a Jeokmyeol-bogung; Bongjeongam stands on the flank of Seoraksan; and on the summit of Taebaeksan is the altar where offerings were made to heaven. Alongside them are places a village kept for its mountain deity, such as the shrine and sansingak at Daegwallyeong.
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TempleWoljeongsa, Odaesan
Head temple of the fourth Jogye district, begun where its founder tried to see Manjushri in the flesh and did not.
TempleSinheungsa, Seoraksan
A temple that changed its name three times, and moved its ground each time it did.
TempleNaksansa
Burned four times and rebuilt each time; the 2005 wildfire took even its bronze bell, a Treasure whose designation was then revoked.
TempleBaekdamsa, Seoraksan
Built where a count of the pools from Cheongbong down to the temple came to a hundred, and named for that number.
TempleJeongamsa
- Protection & Safety
A relic sanctuary where Jajang is said to have enshrined the Buddha’s skull bone, a tooth and a hundred relics, with a National Treasure stupa on the slope behind.
TempleHongryeonam
- Wish Fulfillment
A hermitage built where Uisang is said to have met Avalokiteśvara, its hall raised so the sea can be seen moving beneath the floor.
TempleSangwonsa
- Health & Healing
A temple on Odaesan founded in 705, at the centre of the mountain’s Manjushri devotion, and known for the story that King Sejo met the bodhisattva here as a boy and was healed.
TempleCheongpyeongsa, Obongsan
A temple whose Goryeo garden is the listed monument, and where a son rebuilding his father’s work renamed the mountain as well.
TempleBongjeongam
- Protection & Safety
A hermitage on Sosecheongbong in Seoraksan, one of the five relic sanctuaries, holding relics Jajang is said to have brought back.
TempleGuryongsa, Chiaksan
A temple whose founding legend has a single written charm dry up the pool where nine dragons lived.
Sacred MountainTaebaeksan Cheonjedan
- Miscellaneous
A stone altar for heaven rites on the summit, where a rite is offered each National Foundation Day and where the state has sacrificed since Silla.
TempleManggyeongsa, Taebaeksan
Built to house a stone image of Manjushri that its founder came here because he had heard it had appeared.
TempleSangwonsa, Chiaksan
The temple whose bell a pheasant struck three times, and whose mountain was renamed for it.
TempleJeongmyeol-bogung, Odaesan
- Protection & Safety
A relic hall on the middle terrace of Odaesan with no buddha image inside, because the Buddha’s own relics are enshrined there.
ShrineHaesindang
- Protection & Safety
A village shrine raised to settle the grievance of a young woman drowned at sea, where carved wooden phalluses have been offered.
ShrineDaegwallyeong Seonghwangsa and Sansingak
- Health & Healing
- Protection & Safety
A mountain-god shrine at the top of the Daegwallyeong pass, whose deity is recorded as presiding over farming, illness, drought and the road.