Jeolla
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Places in this collection
TempleSonggwangsa
The temple called the Sangha Jewel because so many great masters came from it, completing the trio with Tongdosa and Haeinsa.
TempleHwaeomsa
A temple whose great hall took the name Gakhwangjeon after King Sukjong sent down a board he had written himself.
TempleGeumsansa
The temple where Jinpyo enshrined a colossal Maitreya, whose three-storey hall stands for the three assemblies Maitreya will preach.
TempleUnjusa
- Protection & Safety
The temple where Doseon is said to have raised a thousand buddhas and pagodas in a day and a night, to stop the country from listing.
TempleHyangiram
- Wish Fulfillment
One of the country’s four sea-facing Avalokiteshvara prayer halls, named "facing the sun" for the sunrise seen from it.
TempleTapsa, Maisan
- Protection & Safety
A temple among stone towers raised by one man over a lifetime, of which about eighty of the original hundred and eight still stand.
TempleDosolam
A hermitage of Seonunsa, with a seated Buddha thirteen metres high cut into the cliff and a gilt bronze Ksitigarbha inside.
Sacred MountainNogodan
The peak where rites to the Holy Mother of Jirisan began, before the rite moved to Namaksa and later to a hall beside Hwaeomsa.