Yongcheonsa Temple Daeungjeon Hall

Yongcheonsa Temple, on Choejeongsan Mountain, was first built in 670, the tenth year of King Munmu of Silla, by the monk Uisang, who named it Okcheonsa Temple; it was later renamed Yongcheonsa. It has been rebuilt several times, most recently in 1805, the fifth year of King Sunjo of Joseon, by the monk Uiyeol Hwaju, and it has remained in that form to the present day. At the time of its founding it is said to have been a temple of great scale, with some 3,000 monks practising the Buddhist path and 47 hermitages under its authority; today only scattered traces of this can be found. The Daeungjeon Hall of Yongcheonsa Temple is three bays wide and three bays deep, a very grand building built without the use of a single nail, its pillars made from kudzu vine wood thick enough to embrace with both arms. Inside is enshrined a large triad of Buddha statues in good condition, which gives a sense of the temple's former scale.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongdo, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산