Haeinsa Temple is the most important Buddhist monastery in South Korea. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the monastery and temple are located in a mountain area near the city of Daegu. They’ve been continuously occupied since the 9th century. But Haeinsa Temple is on the World Heritage List because it’s home to one of the most remarkable works of literature in the entire world: the Tripitaka Koreana. This is a collection of 81,000 woodblocks carved with the Tripitaka, or the Buddhist holy scriptures. Scholars believe that the carvings, totaling some 52 million characters, were carved by just a small handful of people. And incredibly, there are no known mistakes, errors, or corrections. It all makes Haeinsa Temple a very special place to stay.
