Wibongsayosa Temple

Wibongsa Temple, located on the southern slope of Juchwalsan Mountain, has no certain record of when it was first built. It is said that at the end of the Unified Silla period, a man named Choi Yong-gak saw three phoenixes encircling and fighting over this temple site, and so it was named Wibongsa. In 1868, the fifth year of Emperor Gojong of Joseon, when the monk Poryeon built more than sixty kan (bays) of buildings, it was a large-scale temple, but repeated fires have since greatly reduced its scale. Today only a few buildings remain, including Bogwangmyeongjeon Hall, Chilseonggak Hall, Siwangjeon Hall and the monks' quarters. Yosa refers to the living quarters used by monks; the yosachae (monks' quarters) at Wibongsa Temple has an unusual structure in which the front serves as Geungnakjeon Hall while the rear is used as monks' living quarters. Wibongsa Temple once held the printing woodblocks of the Lotus Sutra and of the Dongguk yeoji seungnam, but today around thirty of these woodblocks are kept at the Dongguk University Museum and the Jeonju City Museum.

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Where it is

Region

Wanju, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산