[2025 Yangyang Attraction] Travel Guide for Naksansa Temple (Updated Mar)

Luoshan Temple is a temple located 4 kilometers north of Luoshan Beach with a history of 1300 years. Silla (57 BC-AD 935) was built by Master Yixiang (625-702) in the 11th year of the 30th generation Wang Wenwu (reigned 661-681). The temple has a seven-story stone pagoda, a bronze bell, and a rainbow gate. and other cultural heritage. Legend has it that Yixiang returned to China after studying abroad in the Tang Dynasty in China. He met the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva while praying, so he built a hall at the Bodhisattva's guidance and named it Luoshan Temple. Houluoshan Temple has been rebuilt many times, and the current building was built in 1953. Luoshan Temple enters the temple through Yizhumen and Hongnimen. Turning into the temple in front of the Hongni Gate, on both sides of the hall, you can see the earthen walls and black bamboos mixed with mud and stone and paved with tiles. Next to the bronze bell on the north side of Luoshan Temple Beach, there is a small back door connected to Yixiangtai and Honglian Temple along a path. Yixiangtai is a pavilion built on a cliff by the sea, where Master Yixiang once practiced meditation. Red Lotus Nunnery is an nunnery built by Master Yixiang on a seaside grotto. A hole with a diameter of about 10 centimeters was dug in the eaves of the Fatang, and the sea can be seen from here. Go to the right foot of the mountain via Yixiangtai, where there is a stone Buddha statue of Guanyin standing on the Shenxian Peak standing looking out to the sea. The Buddha statue is so huge that it can be seen even from the far away port of Wuzi.