• Guinsa Buddhist Temple, Danyang, Korea
    Chungcheongbuk-do (충청북도)

    Guinsa Temple: The Towering Buddhist Headquarters in Danyang

    There are Buddhist temples across Korea, on mountainsides, in city centers, beside the sea, and Guinsa Temple (구인사) in Danyang is unlike any of them. The name means “Temple of Salvation and Kindness,” and the temple lives up to it: this is the headquarters of the Cheontae school of Korean Buddhism, with over 50 buildings rising multiple stories through a narrow mountain valley, capacity for up to 10,000 monks, and three free vegetarian meals every day for anyone who visits, regardless of religion. If you’re someone who thinks that once you’ve seen one Korean Buddhist temple you’ve seen them all, Guinsa is specifically the temple that disproves that. Want some…

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