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Songgwangsa, the Glossary

Songgwangsa translation: Spreading Pine Temple; alternates: Songgwang-sa, or Songgwang Sa, or Songkwangsa; also known as: Piney Expanse Monastery; originally: Gilsangsa), one of the three jewels of Seon Buddhism, is located in South Jeolla Province on Mount Jogye on the Korean Peninsula. Situated approximately away from the sea, it is within the Jogyesan Provincial Park.^[1]

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1190 establishments in Asia
12th-century establishments in Korea
Buildings and structures in South Jeolla Province
Seon temples
Suncheon
Tourist attractions in South Jeolla Province

Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Buddhist temples in Korea

Buddhist temples are an important part of the Korean landscape. Songgwangsa and Buddhist temples in Korea are Buddhist temples in South Korea.

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Circumambulation

Circumambulation (from Latin circum around and ambulātus to walk) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol.

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Dharma

Dharma (धर्म) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others.

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Dharmakāya

The dharmakāya (धर्म काय, "truth body" or "reality body", p) is one of the three bodies (trikāya) of a buddha in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Dharmapala

A dharmapāla is a type of wrathful god in Buddhism. The name means "dharma protector" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapālas are also known as the Defenders of the Justice (Dharma), or the Guardians of the Law. There are two kinds of dharmapala, Worldly Guardians (lokapala) and Wisdom Protectors (jnanapala).

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Dipankara

Dipankara (Pali: Dīpaṅkara; Sanskrit:, "Lamp bearer") or Dipankara Buddha is one of the Buddhas of the past.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.

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Haeinsa

Haeinsa is a Buddhist temple in Gayasan National Park, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Songgwangsa and Haeinsa are Buddhist temples in South Korea and Buddhist temples of the Jogye Order.

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Huayan

The Huayan school of Buddhism (Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907).

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Hyunoong

Hyunoong Sunim is a Korean Zen master as well as a Taoist Master born in South Korea.

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Injong of Goryeo

Injong of Goryeo (29 October 1109 – 10 April 1146) (r. 1122–1146), personal name Wang Hae, was the 17th monarch of the Korean Goryeo dynasty.

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International Seon Center

International Seon Center (국제선센터) is a Buddhist temple in Yangcheon-gu in Seoul, South Korea.

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Jataka tales

The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.

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Jeonghyegyeolsa

Jeonghyegyeolsa (“Correct Wisdom Society”) was a Buddhism movement.

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Jinul

Jinul Puril Bojo Daesa ("Bojo Jinul"; 1158–1210), often called Jinul or Chinul for short, was a Korean monk of the Goryeo period, who is considered to be the most influential figure in the formation of Korean Seon (Zen) Buddhism.

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Jogye Order

The Jogye Order, officially the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (대한불교조계종, 大韓佛敎曹溪宗), is the representative order of traditional Korean Buddhism with roots that date back 1200 years to the Later Silla National Master Doui, who brought Seon (known as Zen in the West) and the practice taught by the Sixth Patriarch, Huineng, from China around 820 CE.

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Jogyesan

Jogyesan, or Mount Jogye, is a mountain of South Jeolla Province in southwestern South Korea.

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Juniperus chinensis

Juniperus chinensis, the Chinese juniper, is a species of plant in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to China, Myanmar, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East.

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Korea

Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.

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Korean Buddhism

Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries.

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Korean Seon

Seon or Sŏn Buddhism is the Korean name for Chan Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known in English as Zen Buddhism.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown (코리아타운, Koriataun) is a neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.

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List of Buddhist temples

This is a list of Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas, and pagodas for which there are Wikipedia articles, sorted by location.

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Lunar calendar

A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year.

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Maitreya

Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali), is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha.

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Martine Batchelor

Martine Batchelor (born 1953), a former Jogye Buddhist nun, is the author of several books on Buddhism currently residing in France.

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Park Chung Hee

Park Chung Hee (November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the third President of South Korea from 1962 to 1979 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961.

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Pratyekabuddhayāna

Pratyekabuddhayāna (Sanskrit: प्रत्येकबुद्धयान) is a Buddhist term for the mode or vehicle of enlightenment of a pratyekabuddha or paccekabuddha (Sanskrit and Pali respectively), a term which literally means "solitary buddha" or "a buddha on their own" (prati- each, eka-one).

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Preceptor

A preceptor (from Latin, "praecepto") is a teacher responsible for upholding a precept, meaning a certain law or tradition.

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Sangha

Sangha is a Sanskrit word used in many Indian languages, including Pali which means "association", "assembly", "company" or "community"; in these languages, sangha is frequently used as a surname.

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Seoul

Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.

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Silla

Silla (Old Korean: 徐羅伐, Yale: Syerapel, RR: Seorabeol; IPA), was a Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BCE – 935 CE and located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula.

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Skanda (Buddhism)

Skanda (Chinese:塞建陀, 室建陀), also known as Wei Tuo and Idaten, is a Mahayana bodhisattva regarded as a devoted guardian of Buddhist monasteries who protects the teachings of Buddhism.

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Solar calendar

A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the season or almost equivalently the apparent position of the Sun relative to the stars.

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South Gyeongsang Province

South Gyeongsang Province (translit) is a province in the southeast of South Korea.

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South Jeolla Province

South Jeolla Province (Jeollanam-do), also known as Jeonnam, is a province in the Honam region, South Korea, and the southernmost province in mainland Korea.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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Suncheon

Suncheon (Suncheon-si) is the largest city in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, with a population of 280,719 as of 2022.

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Taenghwa

T'aenghwa (Hangul: 탱화, translation: "hanging-painting"; alternate: Hwaom zhenghua) is a characteristic type of Korean Buddhist visual art.

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Tathāgata

Tathāgata is a Pali and Sanskrit word; Gautama Buddha uses it when referring to himself or other Buddhas in the Pāli Canon.

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Templestay

Templestay is cultural program offered in numerous South Korean Buddhist temples. Songgwangsa and Templestay are Buddhist temples in South Korea.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Three Jewels Temples

The Three Jewels Temples (삼보사찰| Sambosachal) are the three principal Buddhist temples in Korea, each representing one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism, and all located in South Korea. Songgwangsa and three Jewels Temples are Buddhist temples in South Korea.

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Tongdosa

TongdosaLe Bas, Tom:"South Korea" pg 244, Insight Guides, 8th edition 2007 is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and in the southern part of Mt. Songgwangsa and Tongdosa are Buddhist temples in South Korea and Buddhist temples of the Jogye Order.

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Vairocana

Vairocana (from Sanskrit: Vi+rocana, "from the sun" or "belonging to the sun", "Solar", or "Shining") also known as Mahāvairocana (Great Vairocana) is a major Buddha from Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.

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Zen master

Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition themselves.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songgwangsa

Also known as Seonggwangsa, Songgwang Sa, Songgwang Temple, Songgwang-sa.

Songgwangsa, the Glossary

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1190 establishments in Asia

12th-century establishments in Korea

Buildings and structures in South Jeolla Province

Seon temples

Suncheon

Tourist attractions in South Jeolla Province

References