The most beautiful religious buildings Gyeongju 경주

Although not the largest or most beautiful, Borisa's temple remains pleasant. The main hall has interesting wooden bas-reliefs. You can take a path on the right (beware it slips) that climbs to a stone bas-relief representing the Buddha of the future surrounded by flames dating from the 8th century. A path on the left leads us a little higher to a large rock carved on its 4 sides with several Buddhist bas-reliefs from Silla. We will also notice the engraved pagodas, unique in their kind.

This temple, which was built during the reign of King Munmu, was completed in 682 under the reign of his son Sinmun, who dedicated it to him. It was a very large temple of which only foundation stones remain as well as 2 large stone stupas 13 m high. Although damaged, they are still impressive. We also see a basin that was once connected to the sea by a canal to allow King Munmu, who became a sea dragon, to come to the temple at his leisure.

This is where Hwangnyongsa Temple, the largest of the Silla temples, was located. He had a gigantic hall containing 3 huge golden statues of the Buddha. In front of it stood a 9-storey wooden pagoda 70 m high! It burned 5 times and was rebuilt until the Mongols destroyed it permanently in 1238. There is nothing left of this temple except the foundation stones. More than 40,000 objects were discovered, some of which are on display at the National Museum.