Yaksasa Temple (Seongnam)

Yaksasa Temple is a temple belonging to the Korean Buddhist Yeorae Order, located on the mid-slope of Mandeoksan Mountain in Namhansanseong, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. The temple was founded in 1937 when Sukhyeon Daebosal (born Yun Bong-sun), after having a prophetic dream, discovered a small cave on a hermitage site with the help of an elderly woman named Lee Chang-ho, and built a shrine to begin religious life. In March 1967, Monk Inwang rebuilt Hanheungsa Temple, which had been located on Namhansanseong, and in 1968 enshrined an upright statue of the Eastern Medicine Buddha (Yaksayeorae), changing the temple's name to its current one, Yaksasa Temple. During the construction of Daeungbojeon Hall in 1999, stone pagoda components (two lower platform face stones, five platform capstones, one roof stone) and roof tiles, presumed to be from the Goryeo Dynasty, were discovered, confirming that the site was originally a temple location. The Jijang Siwangdo (Kṣitigarbha and Ten Kings painting) is enshrined in Seongbojeon Hall.