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Monk Doseon(道詵) has been treated as an important figure who founded Korean fengshui(風水) and played an influential role in Korean history. But in fact, Doseon and his fengshui discourse were socially constructed by power politics. Doseon was regarded as ideologue, and his ideas acted as a spatial ideology that empowered the powerful local gentries to trigger a social upheaval in the late Silla period and was used by the government leaders for political purposes throughout the Goryeo period. Most of temples in Jiri Mountain(智異山) region were affected by Doseon‘s fengshui discourse and their functions and meanings were politically reconstructed according to purpose of the politic authority.