Abstract
Buseoksa Temple, which was one of the representative temples in Haweom study(華嚴宗) of Korea known to be established by Uisang was designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018. Uisang, who studied in Tang(China) during the Silla Dynasty is regarded as one has the basic feng-shui knowledge. Actually, the foundation story of Buseoksa includes the contents related to feng-shui directly or indirectly. In this vein, this study analyzed the characteristics of location and layout of Buseoksa from the viewpoint of feng-shui. As a result, the location of Buseoksa have the favorable conditions in general from the viewpoint of feng-shui, especially has the characteristics of location suitable for the pray seminary. And the layout of Buseoksa have two properties, which are the multi-leveled stone steps and curved axis. These two properties showed that Buseoksa was planned to coordinate with nature, caused that Muryangsu-jeon(無量壽殿) area and Bumjonggak area have the each view.
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