Cultural heritage in Goyang
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2017-06-01
Great Priest Seongneung who wrote Bukhanji and built the Bukhan Mountain Fortress
One of the largest and most important cultural properties in Goyang City is Bukhan Mountain.
It is a huge stone fortress with a total length of 12,7 km.
The high places like Baegundae have built walls to 800m above sea level to prepare for the invasion of enemies.
It is divided into several facilities inside and outside the fortress.
A variety of facilities were built in the castle, such as the royal palace where the king frequently visited, Bongyoungjeong where the military bases of Uhyongcheong, Geumuiyoung, and Hoonryeondogam remained, and traditional temples such as Taegosa Temple and Jungheungsa Temple.
The construction of this great fortress only took 6 months, which is amazing.
Cultural Asset Association, Seoul, and Goyang investing millions to restore it since 1994 and not being able to finish it shows how amazing our ancestors technology of building fortresses was.
There are some collapsed areas but the fortress itself is still very strong and many people use it for light hiking.
Bukhan Mountain Fortress that shows the amazing technology of architecture of King Sukjong’s time was built by monks, soldiers, and people.
The monks’ special ability to build castles and fortresses was a huge contribution to the building of the fortress.
Great Priest Seungneung is the one who guided all the monks who gathered to built the fortress from all parts of Korea.
Great Priest Seungneung was a monk from Hwaum Temple of Jiri Mountain who received the position of head monk of Korea and was given the responsibility of constructing the Bukhan Mountain Fortress.
After constructing the fortress, he wrote Bbukhanji booklet to write of ways to manage the fortress.
The booklet has detailed description of the mountain, the mountain fortress and key facilities within the fortress.
There is a traditional temple called Bongseong-am in in Bukhan Mountain.
It is called Bongseong-am, as in a small temple where Great Priest Seungneung is at.
Within the Bongseong-am, there is a stupid where the ashes of the great priest remains.
It is now protected as Gyeonggido’s Tangible Cultural Asset No 188.
Goyang City and Gyeonggi-do has been putting in efforts into excavation and research to register Bukhan Mountain Fortress of a World Cultural Heritage, and the Bukhanji booklet of the Great Priest Seongneung is becoming a key literary resource.
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