Jeonggwangjeonghyewon Temple

According to the history recorded on the merit stele of the monk Dohyeon, standing in the front yard of Jeonggwangjeonghyewon, the Japanese monk Dohyeon opened a mission hall in Mokpo in 1911, which was established as Heungseonsa Temple in 1917, and after Liberation the monk Manam renamed it Jeonggwangjeonghyewon. After Liberation, the monk Manam took the lead in the Buddhist Purification Movement at Jeonggwangjeonghyewon. It is also known as the place where the monk Beopjeong, then still a university student before entering monastic life, was helping with the practical work of the Buddhist Purification Movement at Jeonggwangjeonghyewon when the writer Ko Un visited as the monk Ilcho, marking the first meeting between the two. It was originally founded by a Japanese monk as a Japanese-style temple, and its architectural form follows the basic Japanese temple style in which the Buddha hall (buldang) and the monks' quarters (yosachae) are connected and combined within a single building. The Buddha hall and the monks' quarters are linked around a rectangular courtyard by a lower corridor that also serves as an entrance hall and an upper corridor, forming the distinctive plan and spatial arrangement of a Japanese-style temple in which worship space and living space are combined within one building. Characteristic features of the Buddha hall are, on the exterior, the main entrance at the centre of the façade together with the kōhai (a projecting porch), and, in the interior, the butsuma (Buddha room) at the rear, which contains a decorative altar.

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Where it is

Region

Mokpo, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산