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Haeinsa

A head temple of the Jogye Order on Gayasan mountain, founded in 802. Its Janggyeong Panjeon halls, built around 1488 and designed to stay dry through natural ventilation, store the more than 81,000 wooden printing blocks of the 13th-century Tripitaka Koreana.

Dated events and their evidence

• 802 CE mainstream
  temple founded under King Aejang of Silla source
• 1237 CE mainstream
  carving of the Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks begins on Ganghwa Island, finished in about 12 years source
• 1398 CE mainstream
  Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks moved to Haeinsa source
• 1488 CE disputed
  present Janggyeong Panjeon depositories built, dated by an inscribed roof tile source
• 1995 CE mainstream
  Janggyeong Panjeon inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

35.8011° N, 128.0983° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeinsa
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripitaka_Koreana
• https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0062725

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