The temple was founded in the year 752, it is very characteristic of courtyard layout, preserved porch courtyard type plane and space form of lattice.
Bulguksa temple stone monuments are built of granite, its form, construction methods are the civil construction technology of the essence, the magnificent, a balanced and harmonious beauty, is a treasure trove of Korean stone art.
The temple is known as South Korea's most beautiful Buddhist temple, incense constantly is by far the number one of the Buddhist temple. In December 1995, Shi Kuan was listed as a site of the world heritage site of the United Nations as a site.
The Buddhist temple is located in the southeast of Gyeongbuk South Korea tohamsan mountainside. Tohamsan, located 13 kilometers southeast of the city of Gyeongju, South Korea known as Dongyue five mountains, 745 meters above sea level.
It is located about 2 kilometers southwest of the famous "Buddhist Huayan Temple", namely the bulguksa temple. Geographical coordinates: 35 degree 47 'north, 129 degree 19' East.
The Buddhist Temple Pagoda (national treasure No. twentieth), Buddha tower (treasure No. twenty-first), the Lotus Bridge Bridge (No. twenty-second / seven treasures), Qingyun bridge / Baiyun bridge (treasure No. twenty-third) and the bronze Vairocana Buddha statue (treasure No. 26) and the bronze Buddha Amitabha statue (Guo Baodi, 27) the stupa (subject to protect cultural relics No. 61) and many other cultural heritage.
The construction of the origin of bulguksa temple, or cloud "Jin Dacheng filial move", and the relevant documents. For example, one in the "Three Kingdoms" (volume nine ("big city II" filial piety parents, "Gu Xiang biography" (quoted by the clouds. Some scholars believe that the "big city" is the "three records of Xinluo Ji" volume nine contained Jin Dazheng (745 ~ 750 years Ren Shizhong).
In fact, there are scholars that the Buddhist temple, the cave temple built, is difficult to make an Huguo, Ping Du magic mountain peaks, finally make Oliver no shock waves ", in order to prevent the invasion of the enemy Japanese national strategy initiatives.
