Ssanggyesa Temple, South Gyeongsang Province
The buildings below the small shrine building at the top of Ssanggyesa, a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, founded in 722 as Okcheonsa (Jade-Heaven Temple) and renamed “Ssanggyesa” (Twin-Streams Monastery) in the 9th century. Most of the temple dates to the 17th century or thereafter, because all its buildings were burned to the ground by Japanese invaders in1592.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Fri Jul 04, 2014