Jeju
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Places in this collection
TempleGwaneumsa, Hallasan
- Protection & Safety
The head temple of the Jogye Order’s 23rd district, on the slope of Hallasan, founded in the spring of 1909 by the nun Bongnyeogwan.
CaveSanbanggulsa
A Buddha image set in a cave in the south cliff of Sanbangsan, where the water falling from the ceiling is called a goddess’s tears.
ShrineSongdang Bonhyangdang
- Protection & Safety
The shrine of the parent gods of Jeju’s village guardian deities, whose children, the myth says, scattered across the island and became its shrine gods.
Historic SiteSancheondan
The altar to which Hallasan’s mountain-god rite was moved down from the summit, after islanders froze to death on the way to it.
TempleYakcheonsa
- Health & Healing
A temple in Daepo-dong, Seogwipo, whose name means the temple where medicinal spring water flows.
TempleBultapsa
- Fertility & Children
A temple on the site of Wondangsa, which Empress Gi is said to have built and sent an envoy to pray at, in order to obtain a son.
ShrineGwenegitdang
The shrine of the sixth son of Songdang Bonhyangdang, where a whole pig has been offered each year.
ShrineWaheul Bonhyangdang
A shrine holding the eleventh son of the Songdang deity together with a goddess who, estranged from him, sits apart in one corner.
TempleBeophwasa
The site of a large temple that flourished on Jeju from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, burned in the early eighteenth and rebuilt in 1987.