Donghwasa

Donghwasa, also Donghwa Temple, is a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order in northern Daegu, South Korea. The temple is placed at the south side of Mt. Palgongsan, within the boundaries of Dohak-dong, Dong-gu, close to Daegu's northern border. The call manner Temple of Paulownia Blossoms. Donghwasa Temple turned into originally installed as Yugasa Temple in 493 with the aid of Ven. Geukdal. According to the Donghwasa Temple Record Monument, erected in 1931, it changed into renamed by using Patriarch Ven. Simji in 832.

The name Donghwa here from a legend that the Korean paulownia bloomed even in winter at that point so people appeared it as an auspicious signal. According to the Samgungnyusa, Vinaya Master Jinpyo gave a few bones with sutras engraved on them to Ven. Yeongsim, who later gave them to Patriarch Simji. In looking to determine in which to enshrine these bones, Patriarch Ven. Simji climbed a mountaintop, at the side of the two gods of Mt. Jungak, one in every of Silla's 5 sacred mountains, and threw them closer to the west. The bones blew away in the wind and landed in a small nicely north of what is now Donghwasa Temple's Chamdang Hall.