Tongdosa
Sign in to savethumb|Tongdosa ceiling Tongdosa () is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and in the southern part of Mt. Chiseosan near Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
Key facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.WHS
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Image
- Korea-Tongdosa-01.jpg
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.caption
- Gate of Non-Duality (left), Hall of Maitreya (center) and Youngsanjeon (right) buildings with three-story stone pagoda (center fore).
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Location
- Yangsan, Republic of Korea
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Criteria
- Cultural: iii
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID
- 1562-1
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Year
- 2018
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.locmapin
- South Korea
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- ^통도사
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 通度寺
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thumb|Tongdosa ceiling Tongdosa () is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and in the southern part of Mt. Chiseosan near Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
Tongdosa is one of the Three Jewels Temples and represents Gautama Buddha. (Haeinsa, also in South Gyeongsang Province, represents the dharma or Buddhist teachings; and Songgwangsa in South Jeolla Province represents the sangha or Buddhist community.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tongdosa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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