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The temple was constructed by the great Buddhist
monk, Tosun-guksa, during the Unified Shilla Period. Eighteen
pagodas and 80 statues of Buddha in and around the temple
are all that remain of the 1,000 Buddhas and 1,000 pagodas
that once belonged to this temple. According to the traditional
theory of geomancy, to prevent the disaster that the Korean
Peninsula would capsize, thousands of statues of Buddha
and pagodas are believed to have been erected as temples
in the southwestern part of the peninsula.
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