Seoul
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TempleJogyesa
- Exams & Study
The head temple of the Jogye Order, in the middle of downtown Seoul, where a prayer for children ends the day before the national entrance exam each year.
TempleBongeunsa
- Family & Home
Founded by a widow to pray for her dead husband’s repose, and later made head temple of the Seon school.
ShrineGuksadang, Inwangsan
- Fertility & Children
- Health & Healing
- Protection & Safety
A shaman shrine moved from Namsan to the slope of Inwangsan in 1925 under Japanese pressure, where roughly a hundred gut rites are still held each year.
TempleDoseonsa
- Wish Fulfillment
Founded by Doseon in 862, with a rock-carved Avalokiteshvara he is said to have split the stone by hand to cut, and a stream of people who come to pray.
ShrineDonggwanwangmyo
- Protection & Safety
A shrine to Guan Yu raised after the Imjin War, the only one of Seoul’s four such shrines still standing.