Hwangnyongsa Temple, Enshrining the Buddha's Sarira - Hwangnyong Bongbul

The Gyeongju National Museum is hosting a special exhibition, 'Hwangnyongsa Temple, Enshrining the Buddha's Sarira,' to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the excavation of the Hwangnyongsa Temple site in Gyeongju. 📚 Around 390 pieces of sarira reliquaries and containers discovered in the sarira hole of the foundation stone (Simchoseok), where they were enshrined at the site of the wooden pagoda of Hwangnyongsa Temple, will be presented in one place. From the gilt-bronze sarira casket and the cover of the sarira hole, which are revealed after long preservation treatment and restoration, to the new research results uncovered through scientific investigation, come and personally experience the solemn and mysterious world of sarira enshrinement inside the wooden pagoda of Hwangnyongsa Temple, the symbol of Silla Buddhism. ✨