{"id":31505,"date":"2025-03-27T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31505"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:59:52","slug":"gounsa-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gounsa-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Gounsa Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gounsa Temple Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea\u2019s southern regions recently destroyed large parts of the Gounsa Temple complex, burning down two buildings that had been designated national treasures.<\/p>\n<h2>About Gounsa Temple<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gounsa Temple, which means <strong>\u201cSolitary Cloud Temple<\/strong>\u201d, is a <strong>1,300-year-old Buddhist temple<\/strong> located in <strong>South Korea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is nestled at the <strong>foot of Deungun Mountain<\/strong> in the southeastern <strong>town of Uiseong.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was reportedly <strong>built in the 7th century during the Shilla dynasty<\/strong> that <strong>ruled <\/strong>the area and other parts of the <strong>Korean Peninsula <\/strong>at the time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While it doesn\u2019t house buildings constructed in the ancient period, it is <strong>home to several famous cultural heritages built later.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unlike so many other major temples on the Korean peninsula, Gounsa Temple <strong>avoided being destroyed by the invading Japanese at this time<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>After the Imjin War<\/strong>, Gounsa Temple <strong>underwent a large-scale reconstruction<\/strong> project that started in 1695.<\/li>\n<li>It is also the <strong>Headquarters Temple of <\/strong>the <strong>16th District of the Jogye-jong Order<\/strong> (the <strong>largest Buddhist Order in Korea)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gounsa Temple FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is Gounsa Temple located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. South Korea<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. During which dynasty was Gounsa Temple originally built?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Shilla Dynasty<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Gounsa Temple is located at the foot of which mountain?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Deungun Mountain<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-korea-wildfires-buddhist-temple-667180ab209a1b2fce58895db49b47af\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">APN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gounsa Temple, which means \u201cSolitary Cloud Temple\u201d, is a 1,300-year-old Buddhist temple located in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}