Case file · Folklore / legend

Seonmyo's dragon and the floating stone

Buseoksa ('Floating Stone Temple') was founded by the monk Uisang, protected by Seonmyo, a Chinese woman who loved him and turned into a dragon.

676 CE · 37.00, 128.69 · status: legend

The account

Local hostile priests were scattered when the dragon lifted a huge boulder into the air; a rock behind the main hall is said to float a hair's breadth above the one below.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Buseoksa
Open it in the living atlas