Tourist Info > Tourist Attraction > Temple > Unjusa
It was located
in 26km southwest of Hwasun-eup. It
lies opposit to Gaecheonsa Temple with
Mt. Cheontae in between. It is believed
that Unjusa and a thousand Buddhas and
pagodas were built in the end of the
Unified Silla Period by the Buddhist
monk Doseon. According to topology,
he thought this temple needed a sail
and shipmaster because it shaped like
a ship. He, therefore, built thousand
Buddhas and pagodas. The name, 'Thousand
Buddhas and Thousand Pagodas' originated
from it. Unfortunately, there are no
written records proving it but . We
can only know the origin of existing
stone Buddhas and pagodas from this
book. A number of stone Buddhas and
pagodas inside the temple are not elaborate,
but rough. They are estimated to create
in about mid Goyreo Dynasty, 12C,
over several years, not at one time. It is
Historic Site No. 312. It was excavated four
times, since 1984. A stone Buddha chamber
was dismantled and restored, a multiple-story
cylindrical pagoda was repaired, and Iljumun(gate)
and Bojegak was newly constructed. The road
toward a lying Buddha also was taken for in
1997. 21 stone pagodas and 93 stone Buddhas
are preserved now in the temple.
