South and North Three-story Stone Pagodas and Stone Lantern of Borimsa Temple, Jangheung

The two stone pagodas were built to enshrine Sakyamuni Buddha's Sarira, being symbolic objects for Buddhist worship. Both pagodas have a similar size and structure.

The height of the south pagoda is 5.4m and that of the north pagoda is 5.9m.

The stone lantern has a symbolic meaning that the Buddha's light shines everywhere. It consists of the square base stone and the octagonal shape of stylobate, body stone and roof stone. The stone lantern showing excellent balance thanks to appropriate proportion of each part is in its original good condition without any damage. Its height is 3.12m.

The two stone pagodas and the stone lantern are displaying the typical style of the Unified Silla pagoda and lantern and all remain intact, serving as a rare source of knowledge for the Buddhist art of Silla.

Source: Korea Heritage Service signboard ↗ · collected 2026-10-08