Jinan

Jinan lies in Korea's Jeolla interior, where Maisan shelters Geumdangsa. The monastery's foundation is explained by competing traditions, but its later history includes a clear episode of reconstruction. After declining during the Japanese invasions of the 1590s and the Manchu invasion of 1636, it moved to its present site in 1675 and was rebuilt.

The older location, about a kilometre and a half away, was remembered as Gogeumdang; another name recalled the use of a natural cave as a worship hall. At the rebuilt monastery, a stone pagoda has been attributed to the late Goryeo or early Joseon period. The survival of older religious objects alongside a relocated foundation gives Jinan a history of Buddhist continuity and renewal through the disruptions of seventeenth-century Korea.