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Multi-periodSite Name: Mireuk-sa temple Alternative Name: 미륵사 彌勒寺Country: South Korea
NOTE: This site is 23.508 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Iksan 익산 Nearest Village: 금마면 기양
Latitude: 36.012330N Longitude: 127.030620E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Ancient Temple in South Korea
The greatest Buddhist temple (350,000 square m) ruin, built in 639 CE and ruined in the 16th or 17th century. It is included in the UNESCO World Heritage Baekje Historic Areas. Once it consisted of 3 pagodas forming a line, and accompanying 3 halls and surrounding double cloisters. Now the central wooden pagoda was lost, the eastern stone pagoda is newly constructed and the western stone pagoda, which was badly reconstructed with concrete by Japanese archaeologists in 1915 during the Japanese annexation era, has been reconstructed after 20 years of deliberate operation, but the shape is still distorted and many uninstalled parts are rolling aside, like the fragments of Neungji-tap.
Official site in English
At the every corners of the western pagoda, there stand strange statuettes (actually, only 3 of them have survived, so new replica was augmented to complete after the reconstruction of the pagoda. Some Japanese scholars suspect that these figures might have something to do with the Saruishi (monkey stones) in Asuka village, Japan. But the expression of Mireuk-sa monkeys is naive and simple, rather resemble to the ones in Shimabara peninsula.
A museum attached.
Rough replicas are placed in the garden of Asuka Shiryōkan museum Japan.
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