Cheonjinbotap

Rising like a peak within Gyeryongsan Mountain, this is a natural rock formation, a pagoda in its natural state rather than something made by human hands. A pagoda (tap) refers to a structure enshrining the Buddha's relics, and the following legend has been handed down about this one. After Shakyamuni Buddha entered nirvana, King Ashoka of India discovered a great quantity of relics in the relic pagoda at Kushinagara and distributed them throughout the ten directions of the world (sipbang segye), the boundless realms of sentient beings said to lie in the ten directions — east, west, south, north, northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest, above and below. At that time, among the Four Heavenly Kings, who guard the Buddhist teaching in the four directions, he sent Vaisravana, the Heavenly King of the North, to this spot on Gyeryongsan Mountain to deposit relics inside this rock. Later the Venerable Ado discovered them and gave the rock the name Cheonjinbotap.

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Where it is

Region

Gongju, Chungnam

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료