Golgulsa Temple
骨窟寺- Era
- Founded 571 · 삼국시대
- Sect
- 조계종
- Feature
- Thousand-Year-Old Temple
101-5 Girim-ro, Munmudaewang-myeon, Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang Province
Founded 571 · 삼국시대조계종
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Golgulsa Temple, located on Hamwolsan Mountain in Gyeongju, is the headquarters of Seonmudo (Zen Martial Arts) and is nicknamed "Korea's Shaolin Temple." Approximately 1,500 years ago, Gwangyu Seonin and his companions, who came from India, settled on Hamwolsan Mountain in Gyeongju and founded Golgulsa and Girimsa Temples. Golgulsa is the oldest stone cave temple in Korea, built by Gwangyu Seunim and his companions in the style of Indian cave temples. At Golgulam Hermitage, at the foot of Hamwolsan Mountain, there are 12 stone caves carved into a massive tuff rock tens of meters high. At the highest point of the rock face, there is a rock-carved Buddha statue carved in bas-relief.