Jonjaamji Site

This is a temple site recorded in texts such as the Dongguk yeoji seungnam and the Tamnaji as a temple that once enshrined arhats (nahan). Nahan is a shortened form of arahan (Sanskrit arhat), and has long been an object of worship as a 'field of blessing' believed to grant people's wishes quickly. In Korea most large temples have a Yeongsanjeon Hall enshrining the Buddha's ten great disciples together with the sixteen or five hundred arhats, and some temples maintain a separate Nahanjeon Hall or Eungjinjeon Hall for this purpose. Excavations carried out in the 1990s uncovered building sites, a budo (a stone stupa enshrining the relics of an eminent monk), drainage facilities, and fragments of roof tiles, buncheong ware and white porcelain, and restoration work has been under way since 1998. The date of the temple's founding is unknown, but the budo to the north of the building site, designated a Jeju Island Tangible Cultural Heritage item, appears to have enshrined the Buddha's own genuine relics.

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Where it is

Region

Seogwipo, Jeju

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물