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Bulguksa and Seokguram

Temple of the Silla kingdom above Gyeongju, with stone terraces, twin pagodas and, on the ridge above, the Seokguram grotto: a granite dome built around a seated Buddha that faces the sunrise over the East Sea. Together they are the high point of Silla Buddhist art.

Dated events and their evidence

• 528 CE mainstream
  small temple founded under King Beopheung source
• 751 CE mainstream
  rebuilt on the present scale under King Gyeongdeok source
• 774 CE mainstream
  construction completed source
• 1995 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

35.7900° N, 129.3322° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulguksa

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