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Haeinsa Temple in South Korea will lead you to the Tripitaka Koreana, which are all the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,258 wooden printing blocks, and are preserved here since 1398. Haeinsa Temple or Temple of Reflection on a Smooth Sea, is one of the most significant of Buddhist temples in South Korea and is known as one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea.
Facilities of Haeinsa Temple in South Korea
- Standing for Dharma or the Buddha's teachings, Haeinsa Temple in South Korea can be seen on Gaya Mountain in South Gyeongsang Province.
- This temple serves as a Seon practice center even now.
- Initially built in 802, Haeinsa Temple in South Korea was refurbished in 900s, 1488, 1622, and 1644.
- History says that this temple was gutted in a fire in 1817, various parts of the temple were later reconstructed and discovered.
- According to legendary tales, Suneung and Ijeong, two Korean monks healed King Aejang wife of her illness when they returned from China. The king became so happy that he decided to build Haeinsa Temple in South Korea.
- According to some other theories, when the monks, Suneung and Ijeong, were patronized by a queen dowager, she flushed out money to found this temple.
- The main hall of Haeinsa Temple in South Korea is Daejeokkwangjeon (Hall of Great Silence and Light)
- Haeinsa Temple in South Korea has already been enlisted into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, since it houses unique artifacts by preserving them with ingenious methods.
- You will also find wooden carving of a monk, Buddhist paintings, stone pagodas and lanterns in this temple.
- The storage halls or the oldest part of the temple of Haeinsa Temple in South Korea are called Janggyeong Panjeon complex and stores the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks
- Interestingly enough, the halls were not affected during the Japanese invasion of the Seven-Year War and even the fire of 1818.
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