Jeolla
Jeolla holds Songgwangsa — the Sangha jewel among the Three Jewel Temples — and Hwaeomsa on the slopes of Jirisan. It also gathers things hard to find elsewhere: the stone buddhas of Unjusa in Hwasun, and the stacked stone pagodas of Tapsa at Maisan.
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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.
TempleDaeheungsa, Duryunsan
The temple that came to receive state rites because it held the bowl and robe of the master Seosan.
TempleSeonunsa, Dosolsan
A temple paid in salt, because it had taught the coast how to make it.
TempleGeumsansa
The temple where Jinpyo enshrined a colossal Maitreya, whose three-storey hall stands for the three assemblies Maitreya will preach.
TempleSeonamsa, Jogyesan
A temple whose record sets two founding accounts side by side and says which it trusts more.
TempleBaekyangsa, Baegamsan
Renamed because white sheep kept coming to the sound of a sutra being read.
TempleSilsangsa, Jirisan
Founded at the moment the Silsang school, one of the Nine Mountain Seon schools, was opened.
TempleBaengnyeonsa, Mandeoksan
Where an association was formed that stood level with the one at Songgwangsa.
TempleMihwangsa, Dalmasan
Built where an ox last stopped, and named for the sound the ox made.
TempleNaesosa, Neungasan
A temple that knows neither when it was founded nor when its name changed.
TempleBulgapsa, Moaksan
A temple said to be Baekje’s first — a claim its own encyclopaedia declines to accept.
TempleDogapsa, Wolchulsan
Rebuilt at nine hundred and sixty-six kan by a monk who had left home at this very temple.
TempleMuwisa, Wolchulsan
A temple where the wall painting records the year it was painted.
TempleSsangbongsa, Gyedangsan
The only building that carried the form of a three-storey wooden pagoda, lost to a candle.
TempleTaeansa, Dongnisan
The central temple of the Dongni school, one of the Nine Mountain Seon schools.
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.