Boryeong

Poryŏng lies on Korea's western coast, with Mount Sŏngju rising inland from the Yellow Sea. The monk Muyŏm established Sŏngjusa here after returning from China in the ninth century, making it a centre of the Sŏngjusan school of Korean Sŏn Buddhism. The temple declined after the Japanese invasion of 1592 and appears to have been abandoned in the early seventeenth century.