Time of the visit: the 16th of oct.,2025

In the morning I took a KMX train from Busan to Daegu-Dongdaegu,from there I had to take the metro to get to Daegu's Seobu Bus Terminal.There is an hourly bus going to the Haeimsa temple via Goryeong.All buses of that fixed route stop there.

I got off one stop before the final stop, as from there you can walk directly up to the temple complex. The temple is massive and consists of many sub-temples. I first went to the halls where the Tripitaka Koreana is housed, a complete collection of Buddhist scriptures in Chinese language carved onto over 80,000 wooden printing blocks.You can take a look through the wooden bars, but you can't see much.An oversized photo of the interior can be viewed directly outside the storage halls.

I then visited most of the sub-temples.There are two cafes inside the temple premises.I had one needed coffee in one of them.All in all I stayed more or less 3 h inside the temple complex.I missed some of the side temples,but had the feeling that I had seen enough to get a good overview of that whs.Surrounded by beautiful mountains and crossed by beautiful streams, Haeinsa remains an active center of Korean Seon (Zen) Buddhism and a symbol of Korea’s rich cultural and spiritual heritage.Regardless of the high importance for the Koreans and Buddhism in general I for my part found the Tongdosa temple complex near Busan far more impressive.

On the way back to Daegu and then to Busan I got off the bus in Goryeong where I spent more than 3 hours visiting the Jisan-Dong Tumuli,which served as royal tombs for the rulers of Daegaya, one of the Gaya kingdoms.I enjoyed visiting and climbing the mounds as much as my visit to the Haeinsa Temple.