Seounam Hermitage

Seounam is a hermitage within Tongdosa Temple. Tongdosa has nearly twenty hermitages belonging to the temple, and among them Seounam is the one most visited by travelers. It is about 1.5 km further up a mountain path from the main hall of Tongdosa; on reaching the entrance, the first thing to catch the eye is the many rows of soy sauce and paste jars. They hold jangs such as medicinal doenjang, makjang, and gochujang that monks have made themselves for a long time. Seounam is especially beautiful in spring; in April you can see about 100 kinds of wildflowers around the hermitage, including bleeding hearts, so many people visit Seounam to see the wildflowers. Seounam also preserves the 160,000 ceramic Tripitaka. Walking up the mountain brings you to the Janggyeonggak, where 160,000 Buddhist scripture plates, including the Heart Sutra carved on ceramic plates, are kept.

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