Samgak-san Doseon-sa

Samgak-san [Three Horns Mountain] dominates the Bukhan-san National Park, in far-northern Seoul, with its many craggy peaks. Always considered highly sacred, it contains a huge fortress and about a hundred Buddhist temples and Shamanic shrines, heavily visited by many types of faithful. Its most important ancient institution is Doseon-sa [Tao-Gathering Monastery], founded in the 10th Century and featuring a 7-meter-tall -carved-relief of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, carved on a huge boulder just over 1000 years ago. A much more recent addition is an amazing Budo (stupa) for 20th-Century Master Cheongdam, who led the urban-modernization of Korean Buddhism. This temple is named after its founder National Master Doseon, the genius developer of Korea's own style of geomancy, called Pungsu-jiri [Feng-shui].