Namjijangsa, Choejeongsan

Quick facts

Address

865 Urok-ri, Gachang-myeon, Dalseong-gun, Daegu

About this place

Namjijangsa stands on Choejeongsan in Gachang-myeon, Dalseong-gun, Daegu, and was founded by Yanghan of Unified Silla. After Mogye rebuilt it in 1767, it came to be called Namjijangsa — the southern Jijangsa — because it stands opposite Bukjijangsa on Palgongsan. Its hermitage, Cheongnyeonam, was used as a training ground by the monk-soldiers under Yujeong during the Imjin War and was destroyed in the fighting.

Origin and history

Namjijangsa on Choejeongsan was founded by Yanghan of Unified Silla.

After Mogye rebuilt it in 1767, it came to be called Namjijangsa because it stands opposite Bukjijangsa on Palgongsan.

Its hermitage, Cheongnyeonam, was used as a training ground by the monk-soldiers under Yujeong during the Imjin War, and was destroyed in the fighting.

What it is locally associated with

• Origin

  South because there is a north

  After Mogye rebuilt it in 1767, it was called Namjijangsa for standing opposite Bukjijangsa on Palgongsan.

  documented history

• What people do here

  Cheongnyeonam as a training ground

  The hermitage was used as a training ground by the monk-soldiers under Yujeong during the Imjin War and was destroyed in the fighting.

  documented history

• Origin

  A Unified Silla founding

  Namjijangsa was founded by Yanghan of Unified Silla.

  documented history

This temple’s name does not stand on its own. It is called the southern Jijangsa because there is a northern one on Palgongsan. After the rebuilding of 1767 it took the name for standing opposite that temple. Both are on this site, so the half the name depends on can be read beside it.

The hermitage carries a record of a different kind. Cheongnyeonam was used as a training ground by the monk-soldiers under Yujeong during the Imjin War, and was destroyed in the fighting — a place for training lost to the war it trained for.

Other regions on this site hold monk-soldier accounts from the same years. Yeonggyu, ordained at Gapsa in Gongju, wept for three days and then gathered more than eight hundred in Chungcheong. That is a record of men being raised; this is a record of the ground where such men drilled.

Related guides

• How to visit a Korean templeHands together and hands folded, how the bows work, and what to do at the threshold of a hall. Starting with what is different from visiting a Japanese shrine.
• The small hall behind the main one — sansingak and samseonggakUphill from the main hall of a Korean temple stands a smaller one, and inside it an old man with a tiger. This is where the indigenous religion sits, inside the Buddhist institution.
• Templestay — a night at a templeA programme that puts you inside a temple’s own timetable for a day or two. What you do, which type to book, and what to be ready for.
• Prayer sites and the one wishThe three great Gwaneum sites, the five relic halls, and the crowds before the entrance exam. Where the saying about one wish comes from, and where the record stops.

Sources

1. 최정산 남지장사(最頂山 南地藏寺) — 한국민족문화대백과사전 (accessed 2026-08-16)