Unjusa

Unjusa or Unju Temple is a Korean Buddhist temple positioned in Hwasun County, South Jeolla province, South Korea. It is 26 km southwest of Hwasun County or forty km south of Gwangju. Compared with different temples in South Korea, this temple has an uncommon series of stone Buddha statues and stone pagodas, so Unjusa is often called the mysterious temple. Among several assumptions regarding its starting place, the maximum widely recognized one is that Monk Doseon founded the temple primarily based on geomancy at some point of the late length of Silla Dynasty 57 BC – 935 AD,

but the origins remain unverified. Unjusa is unique as Treasure 312 and is the web site of the widely recognized Treasure, Unjusa Gucheung Seaktap Nine-story Stone Pagoda at Unjusa. Monk Doseon located the topology of the valley to be suggestive of a exceptional deliver so he concept his temple wanted a sail and shipmaster. The square, tall pagodas, erected alongside a straight line down the middle of the valley represent the masts of the deliver's sail, where the rounded pagodas and Buddhas discovered throughout the grounds represent the team.