Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea World Heritage Site

Official name

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea | UNESCO

Country

South Korea | Map

Continent

Asia

Location

36.5419° Lat, 127.8333° Lon | Map

Code

1562

Time Zone

Asia/Seoul (KST, +0900)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 2018. The Sansa are Buddhist mountain monasteries located throughout the southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula. The spatial arrangement of the seven temples that comprise the property, established from the 7th to 9th centuries, present common characteristics that are specific to Korea – the ‘madang’ (open courtyard) flanked by four buildings (Buddha Hall, pavilion, lecture hall and dormitory). They contain a large number of individually remarkable structures, objects, documents and shrines. These mountain monasteries are sacred places, which have survived as living centres of faith and daily religious practice to the present.