Muryangsujeon Hall of Buseoksa Temple, Yeongju

Buseoksa was founded in 676 by the monk Uisang, sent by the king to teach the Avatamsaka school. The temple's name means floating stone, after a boulder behind this hall: the story goes that a Chinese woman named Seonmyo, who had loved Uisang in Tang China, followed him home as a dragon, turned herself into that rock to scatter the bandits camped here, and settled where she landed. The hall holds Amitabha, Buddha of the Western Paradise. The first building burned in 1358; this one went up in 1376 and was taken apart and repaired in 1916. It is five bays by three under a hip-and-gable roof, with brackets only above the columns — the older, plainer system, and this is the example everyone cites for it. The columns swell at the middle and lean slightly inward, both visible to the naked eye once you know to look. Then turn round: the ranges fall away from the terrace in layers, and half of what people come for is that.

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Visiting

Opening hours

Open 24 hr

Closed

N/A (Open all year round)

Admission

Free

Parking

Available

Information

+82-54-633-3464

Visitor information: Korea Tourism Organization · KOGL Type 1

Where it is

Region

Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Treasure · 국보