Yangyang Seollimwonji Site

Seollimwon is said to have been founded in the early ninth century by the monk Suneung and later rebuilt by the Zen master Honggak. According to a 1985 excavation report by Dongguk University, the temple site is thought to have been completely buried by a landslide triggered by a great flood approximately 900 years ago. In 1948 a Silla bronze bell was unearthed here; together with the Sangwonsa Temple bell and the Emille Bell, it is one of the monumental bells representative of Unified Silla bell-casting. It was moved to Woljeongsa Temple for safekeeping but was destroyed during the Korean War, and only some fragments now survive, held at the National Museum of Korea and the Chuncheon National Museum. Cultural heritage still remaining at the temple site includes a three-storey stone pagoda (treasure), a stupa (treasure), a stone lantern (treasure) and a stupa stele (treasure).

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Where it is

Region

Yangyang, Gangwon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물