Gyeongsang
Gyeongsang holds Haeinsa, which has kept the Tripitaka Koreana, and Seokguram, and Tongdosa, where relics of the Buddha are enshrined. Offshore lies the tomb of King Munmu, and at Gatbawi on Palgongsan the stream of people who come to pray has never stopped.
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TempleHaeinsa
- Protection & Safety
The temple holding the Tripitaka Koreana, cut out of a national wish to repel the Mongols, and the hall that has kept it.
TempleSeokguram
- Family & Home
A stone grotto begun in 751 by Kim Dae-seong for his parents in a former life, paired with Bulguksa, which he built for his parents in this one.
TempleTongdosa
- Protection & Safety
The first of the five relic sanctuaries, whose main hall enshrines no buddha because it faces the relics behind it.
TempleBulguksa, Tohamsan
One man built this for the parents of this life, and Seokguram for the parents of a former one.
TempleBuseoksa, Bonghwangsan
Built where a woman turned dragon turned rock, and hung in the air until five hundred bandits left.
TempleBeomeosa, Geumjeongsan
A golden fish came down out of the sky, and both the mountain and the temple were named after it.
TempleBongjeongsa, Cheondeungsan
The temple where the oldest wooden building in Korea stands.
TempleBunhwangsa
- Health & Healing
The temple that held the image a blind child’s mother prayed to, after which he saw.
TempleSsanggyesa, Jirisan
The ground a tiger led them to, after a search for a place with snow and flowers at once.
TempleHaedong Yonggungsa
- Wish Fulfillment
One of Korea’s three great Avalokitesvara sites, standing right on the sea.
TempleJikjisa, Hwangaksan
Named because Ado, standing at another temple, pointed his finger at this mountain.
TempleUnmunsa, Hogeosan
The temple where the line begins that ends with Wongwang writing the five worldly precepts.
TempleEunhaesa, Palgongsan
The temple took its present name in the year it was made keeper of a king’s placenta shrine.
TempleGounsa, Deungunsan
A temple whose name kept its sound but changed its characters, to hold one man’s pen name.
TemplePyochungsa, Jaeyaksan
Named when the character for shrine in its name gave way to the character for temple.
TempleDorisa, Naengsan
Founded, the account says, because flowers were in full bloom here in winter — and handed down as the first temple in Silla.
TempleGirimsa, Hamwolsan
Founded by a monk from India, and renamed later by Wonhyo.
Historic SiteTomb of King Munmu
- Protection & Safety
The tomb of King Munmu of Silla, set on a rock in the sea because he willed to become a dragon and guard the East Sea.
TempleBogyeongsa, Naeyeonsan
A temple that takes its name from a mirror buried beneath it.
TempleGatbawi
- Exams & Study
- Wish Fulfillment
A Unified Silla stone Buddha seated on the summit of Gwanbong on Palgongsan, and the busiest prayer site in the country in the weeks before the university entrance exam.
TempleGolgulsa
A temple of twelve stone caves worked out of natural hollows.
TempleGwallyongsa, Gwallyongsan
Nine dragons went up, and one sighting named both the temple and the mountain.
TempleBoriam
- Wish Fulfillment
An Avalokiteśvara prayer site on the slope of Geumsan, counted with Hongryeonam and Bomunsa among Korea’s three great sites.
TempleDaewonsa, Jirisan
Counted among the country’s leading meditation halls for women in the monastic life.
Historic SiteMungyeong Saejae
- Exams & Study
The highest and hardest pass on the road from the southeast to the capital, with three gates strung along six and a half kilometres.
Natural SiteHahoe Samsindang Tree
- Family & Home
A zelkova over six hundred years old at the centre of Hahoe village, the shrine of Samsin, the deity who grants children.