Cheongseongsa Temple
93 Kkuldeongi-gil, Bongseong-myeon, Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do
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Cheongseongsa Temple is a temple of the Korean Buddhist Taego Order located on Munsusan Mountain. It is a recently founded temple and is smaller in scale than the Chukseo Temple or Gakhwasa Temple in the Bonghwa area. However, the main hall (Muryangsujeon) of the temple enshrines a stone standing Buddha presumed to be from the late Unified Silla period, which is designated as a Gyeongsangbuk-do Tangible Cultural Heritage, and there is also a three-story stone pagoda. Particularly, the temple is well known among Buddhist devotees for various miracle stories of prayer efficacy — those who come seeking healing for illness, or students seeking academic achievement — from near and far. According to the abbot Gyeongun, the master of the temple is in the lineage of Hwanan Sunim, whose teacher was Wanhyu Sunim, whose teacher was Bak Dae-eun Sunim, continuing through Hwanam Sunim. The stone standing Buddha and the three-story stone pagoda in the temple precincts were transferred from a temple site within Bonghwa-gun when the current abbot Ihasung Sunim, who founded Cheongseongsa in 1952, was in residence.