Geonbongsa

Geonbongsa (Korean: 건봉사) is a temple located in Goseong County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. There is another temple with the same name located in 37.7334°N 128.0805°E / 37.7334; 128.0805. It is commonly referred to as 'Geumgangsan Geonbongsa Temple' at the south-eastern foot of Gambong Peak on Mount Geonbong, where the Geumgangsan stem begins. The area is in the northernmost part of the Korean Peninsula because it is near the border. It is said that the temple was built and called Wongaksa in 520th, the seventh year of King Beopheung of Silla, and this area was Goguryeo's territory at that time, so it is considered a legend like the founding legend related to most temples built during the Three Kingdoms period. There is a record of important Buddhist events and important construction since the period of the two Koreas. In the early Goryeo dynasty, Doseon, a teacher of King Taejo of Goryeo, reconstructed Wongaksa Temple, and there was a phoenix-shaped stone on the west side of the temple. In 1358, during the reign of King Gongmin at the end of the Goryeo dynasty, Naong was renamed Geonbongsa after being reconstructed. During the reign of King Sejo of the Joseon dynasty, it was designated as a Wondang and allowed King Sejo to perform his own activities to build Eosilgak, and continued to receive constant attention and support from the royal court throughout the Joseon dynasty. The tooth sarira of Sakyamuni, brought by Jajangyulsa from the Tang dynasty during the Silla dynasty, was originally located in Tongdosa Temple before being robbed during the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. Ambassador Samyeong took it back from Japan and enshrined it in Geonbongsa Temple. South Korea has one of the four major temples on the northern Japanese occupation, Gangwon Province and one Buddhist temple as...