Heungnyeongseonwonji Site, Yeongwol

Heungnyeongsa Temple is said to have been founded by the monk Jajang, and flourished greatly under Master Jinghyo of the Saja Mountain school, one of the Nine Mountain Schools of Seon Buddhism. It was later destroyed by fire during warfare in 891, the fourth year of Queen Jinseong of Silla, and rebuilt in 943, the first year of King Hyejong of Goryeo, but repeated disasters left it in ruins, and today only the site of the seonwon, its Seon meditation hall, remains. According to tradition, there were three stone pagodas marking the way to the Heungnyeongseonwon site, and one Buddha statue. The pagodas are the one at Jangnak in Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province, the three-storey stone pagoda at Mureung-ri, and the three-storey stone pagoda at Jucheon-ri; the rock-carved seated Buddha beside the entrance is said to be the guardian Buddha of Heungnyeongsa. In 1902 the monk Wongak rebuilt the temple and renamed it Beopheungsa, but it was destroyed by fire in 1912. It was rebuilt on the old temple site in 1930, but a flood the following year swept away the stone pagoda of the main hall and part of the site. Today, to the right of the approach road stand a bell-shaped budo, a stupa for the remains of a monk, and a stone thought to be the base of a sari reliquary pagoda for Buddhist relics, side by side, with more than ten foundation stones buried around the site.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongwol, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물