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Banyasa Temple's only designated heritage, the Three-Story Stone Pagoda (Treasure No. 1371), was relocated in 1950 from the so-called “Tapbeol,” situated in the
Seokcheon Valley north of Banyasa Temple. Thus, the pagoda doesn't provide any reliable information about the temple's history. In addition,
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The name “Banyasa” originated from a plaque King Sejo wrote when he attended the inauguration ceremony for the temple's reconstruction. Banyasa Temple was scheduled to open when King Sejo came to see Ven. Sinmi Daesa at
Bokcheonam Hermitage on Mt. Songnisan. King Sejo healed his own skin problems at
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Banyasa is said to have been established in 720 by Ven. Wonhyo or by Ven. Sangwon, one of Uisang's ten major disciples, but there are no records to confirm this. Another story tells that
National Preceptor Ven. Muyeom was its founder; this story has a more concrete background as it says: “When Ven.
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Standing with one's back to the Main Buddha Hall, to the rear of the dormitory on one's right, lies a 300-meter long, natural scree-rockslide that forms the perfect outline of a crouching tiger about to leap. To attract more tourists
Yeongdong-gun County recently established a photo zone from where
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Banyasa Temple, Gusucheon Stream, fed by water from Mt. Baekhwasan, forms an S-shape, which some people see as a “taegeuk.” (symbol of great polarity or yin-yang). In the center of the stream rises a lotus bud-shaped piece of land, on which Banyasa Temple seems to lean. The temple's
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visitors can take good pictures with the tiger's outline clearly seen in the background. The tiger's image is, geomantically, in the right place in these remote mountains, part of the Baekdu-daegan, the 460-mile-long mountain range that runs north and south the length of the Korean
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Muyeom resided at
Simmyosa Temple in Hwanggan, he dispatched a novice monk named Ven. Sunin to the temple site to cast out the evil dragon living in the pond. Ven. Sunin then established Banyasa Temple after filling in the pond.”
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Banyasa Temple, as he did at
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the Buddha triad enshrined in the Main Buddha Hall, and the two monk's stupas are designated
Regional Cultural Heritage of Yeongdong-gun No. 9, No. 10, No. 11 and No. 12, in that order.
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