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| The Daeungjeon Hall of Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, a thousand-year-old Jeollabuk-do, was burned down by a monk’s arson on the 5th. A monk stands with his head lowered at Daeungjeon Hall in Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup on the 6th. 2021.3.6/News1 © News1 Reporter Yoo Gyeong-seok |
“Oh, if you don’t like the temple, why should I leave?”
On the morning of the 6th, Naejangsa Temple in Naejangsan, Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do. Buddhists gathered in contact with the news that all Daeungjeon was burned last night. Daeungjeon was burned down by the conduct of the monk A (53), who stayed here.
One woman was enthusiastic about the remains of Daeungjeon Hall, which had become black charcoal. I was sitting in the middle to see if my legs were relaxed.
This woman, who usually visits internal organs, said, “I think it’s too vain and everything is useless,” and “how can it disappear without a shape like this in one moment, even though it hasn’t been a while since it’s been difficult to reconstruct?”
A man who came from Gwangju, Jeollanam-do said, “I was so surprised to see the news that I came with my friends who go to the temple as usual,” and said, “It’s not a normal person, and I don’t know how the monk did that, but Daeungjeon is a waste”.
Many citizens and temple officials captured the site, where the smell of burning wood still remains, on mobile phone cameras.
The large girders and rafters that supported Daeungjeon also burned and collapsed. The tiles on which the wishes of the believers were written were also shattered and rolled over the floor.
The vegetation at the foot of Naejangsan Mountain was slightly scorched behind the site of Daeungjeon. Next to the fire hydrant installed next to it, a fire hose was spread out.
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| The Daeungjeon Hall of Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, with a thousand-year history, was burned down by a monk on the 5th, and citizens are watching the remains of Daeungjeon Hall of Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup on the 6th. 2021.3.6/News1 © News1 Reporter Lee Ji-sun |
In the Naejangsa Temple visited that day, there were officials from Seonunsa, who oversees the parish.
It is reported that all the monks of the temple, including the monks of Naejangsa Temple, were hospitalized in order to inhale smoke or to relax because of a great mental shock.
The officials explained that Daeungjeon is the core of the temple as it is a temple where the main Buddha statue is enshrined.
An official at a temple said, “It was only last January that Mr. A, who had fired fire, came to this place only last January,” and said, “I know that he, who wandered around another temple, asked to enter Naejangsa and accepted it.”
He added, “It is said that Mr. A was laughing in front of his room after setting the fire on,” he added. “The act of a monk deliberately setting a fire on fire cannot be forgiven.”
On this day, Seonunsa, the headquarters of the 24th parish of the Korean Buddhist Jogye Order, expressed an apology for this incident.
Seonunsa said, “Daewoongjeon, which was the basis of training for monk practitioners and a spiritual comfort for the local people, was again engulfed in fire.”
He pledged, “I will cooperate closely with the end to thoroughly investigate the specific cause of the incident,” and “I will do my best to prevent such things from happening again by conducting an emergency check.”
On this day, the police applied for an arrest warrant for Mr. A.
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| The Daeungjeon Hall of Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup, Jeollabuk-do, with a thousand-year history, was burned down by a monk on the 5th, and a broken tile rolls over the remains of Daeungjeon Hall in Naejangsa Temple in Jeongeup on the 6th. The tile contains the wishes of the Buddhists who made a tribute. 2021.3.6/News1 © News1 Reporter Lee Ji-sun |