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Hwangnyongsa

Royal Buddhist temple at Gyeongju, South Korea, begun 553 under King Jinheung of Silla and not finished until 644. Its nine-storey wooden pagoda stood about 68 m and was the tallest structure in the region until Mongol invaders burned it in 1238; only the platform and stone bases survive. The 1972 excavation exposed the layout and some 40,000 artefacts, with systematic study from April 1976. COORDINATES: Wikidata 35.8375/129.2328 matches the OSM site node (0.1 km). The en-Wikipedia infobox gives 35.7889/129.2267, about 5.4 km south, and is not used here.

Dated events and their evidence

• 553 CE mainstream
  construction begun under King Jinheung source
• 644 CE mainstream
  temple complex completed source
• 1238 CE mainstream
  nine-storey pagoda burned in the Mongol invasions source
• 1972 CE mainstream
  excavation exposes the layout and c. 40,000 artefacts source

Where

35.8375° N, 129.2328° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwangnyongsa
• https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020369

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