Topic summary
Jogye
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Jogye Order.
Head temples
Jogye Order has 25 parishes (교구). Jogyesa is the principal temple. The head temple of a parish is called bonsa (본사; 本寺) and oversees parish affairs. Its subordinate temples are called malsa (말사; 末寺) and one parish has ten to hundreds of malsa. The prototype of the 25-parish system is the 31-bonsan system implemented during the Japanese colonial period.