Cheongnyang Temple淸凉寺

Cheongnyangsa Temple is located in Myeongji-dong, Busan, in a place shaped like a golden hen peacefully nesting and incubating its eggs (a 'geumgye poran hyeong' formation). Cheongnyangsa Temple, situated in a location renowned geomantically as a prime auspicious site, originated from a shrine dedicated to Dangsan Halmeoni, the guardian deity of the village. The exact founding date of Cheongnyangsa Temple is unclear, but based on detailed records on the back of the Sakyamuni Buddha's main altarpiece painting, it is known to be 1917. It is said that at the site where Dangsan-gak once stood, Ven. Geumdo, the head monk of Jangyuam Temple on Mount Bulmo in nearby Gimhae, established a temple hall and three years later, in 1920, enshrined the Sakyamuni Buddha's main altarpiece painting. Cheongnyangsa Temple was initially called Jangyuam Gyo-dang (Jangyuam Temple Hall) and later renamed Yeonhosa Temple. This name was given because, whenever floods submerged the surrounding area, only the temple alone would emerge, resembling a floating lotus flower. Subsequently, when Seon Master Honggyeong, a pillar of Korean Buddhism, resided there, he incorporated the villagers' prayers for clear weather during the monsoon season, which often brought severe flood damage, and in 1961, while registering it as a branch temple of Beomeosa Temple, he renamed it Cheongnyangsa Temple.