It was snowy day when I dropped by Seong Bool Sa Temple. This temple was well known because of the song in where sang a lonely silent night of this temple.
It was little bit difficult to climb the mountain due to the snow. I walked up to the temple.
What made me dropped by this temple were it’s carved Buddha statue and it’s scenery about where the song sang.
The scenery was excellent, especially the snow helped to constitute the atmosphere similar to that of the song.
There was not so many people due to the snow. People could not come closer to the temple due to the snow.
It is much better to see that scenery than to explain.
The best place in this temple was Dae Woong Jeon of the main building.
This Dae Woong Jeon was not so large to that of other temple, because this temple was built in the steep slope.
This temple believed to have been built in Koryeo Dynasty, it meant that this temple was built more that 1000 years ago.
May be it was not easy to dropped by this temple long time ago.
What made people build the temple in this deep mountain?
The main object in this temple was the carved Buddha statue and 16 great monks.
It seemed that this statue had been carved 1000 years ago.
The statue was not clear due to the weathering of long time.
(Buddha)
It was not easy to identify Buddha
(16Great Monks)
In the main building, there was no statue in center place.
There was a glass window behind the seat.
It meant that they were serving the carved Buddha statue as the main Buddha statue.
I sat in the main building and enjoyed hearing the sound of small bell of ‘Poong Gyeong’
It’s sound made me comfortable and felt me being healed.
What makes the place great is not a size or a scale but an accumulation of time and feeing.
I love it when the writing is literally on the wall. Fantastic posts with an excellent range of images. Everything just looks so much more pretty with a fresh layer of crisp clean snow doesn't it?
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Really beautiful pictures ..
How wonderful sense of calm especially in nature
Thanks for sharing
Great photos.
So awesome. Love little hidden gems like this that I've never heard about. Thanks for the cool pics and experience!
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Not only that the place is amazing, but the snow gives it a great aspect that it takes your breath. We didn't had snow so far, but I hope it will come eventually! Is always a pleasure to see your posts, @slowwalker!
Wow, this is so beautiful and calming. Thanks for sharing :)
성불사! 눈이 온 산사가 너무 아름 답네요
성불사의 밤 이라는 가곡이 떠오르는 군요
"성불사 깊은밤 그윽한 풍경소리"
좋은 여행 되십시요
전 봄이 오면 떠나렵니다.
언제가도 좋은 곳입니다 .
Thanks for sharing!
Snow adds such a magical element to any landscape. I loved these photos! As someone who has recently been learning composite photography, its pretty simple to mask snow on top of images. That would've been a really nice post processing touch to some of these :) But I know not everyone's super into toiling in Photoshop like I am in. Happy creative trails!
Interesting place. nice photos!
Thanks @slowwalker for sharing these beautiful pics! snow fall makes it even more special...
Yes.
It seems that the snow changes eveything
i like this photos, thanks
a snowy temple lost in time...such a wistful setting for today's post, @slowwalker.
How lovely the buildings look dusted with snow and so lonely and far away.
Temples are usually built on heights and the way to approach them often difficult to navigate - they are meant to be remote and inaccessible and are designed to attract only true seekers.
The Buddha statue, so weathered by the elements as to be almost indistinguishable from rock, is a symbol of the millennium that have passed while this remote sanctuary slept.
The loneliness you felt reminds me of Robert Frost's poem, Desert Places:
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
Have a good day, @slowwalker
Thank you so much for your comment
the last line of poem reminds me of my situaltion
I'm glad it touched you, my friend
Great poem...let aside all your comment which I agree
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Wow is that breath taking, the snow on the ground provides for a great contrast with the buildings. Well done!
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Whether great or small a place maybe, it will be remembered by the ambiance and a fleeting feeling of it's history.
As always, magnificent photos @slowwalker. Keep it up and have a blessed day!
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Agree with you , actually, life is really a feeling, if you feel happy, your life is happy, if you feel sad, your life is painful, if you complain, your life will be troubled. Enjoy listening to the sound of the bell just like you . Thanks for your sharing , and your hard work @slowwalker.
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Agreed, life is so fun.
Love these pictures. I like the contrast between the colourful houses and the white snow!
talk about tranquility, Great shots of the temple, couldn't tell much on the rocks other than one CAN tell its very old.
what a surreal place to be.
Yes, there I doesn't need to say something
Hello @slowwalker
Sometimes I feel good in loneliness and I pass my time in SELFIE.
Thanks for sharing this place to us.
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Great work@slowwalker, well planed everything is placed in a very systematic order. Ourstanding work just mervalous ^^
Yes you are right
What beautiful shots! Love the way the snow covers the rooftops.
Gorgeous set! For a person who's never been to that part of the world (only seen lots of pictures) the snow seems extra exotic, hehe
congrats,
-Esa
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Wow pretty beautiful scenery I really liked your post if I have money I will holiday to Korea
The Pictures are absolutely amazing. Well done
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ohhhh amazing temple... I was so close to go to Korea the last year but instead of this I did a really good friends from there...
Anyoung haseyo! 👋🏼
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Nice one. This temples always amaze me. Climbing all the way up it's hard, but definitly rewarding! Hope ti travel asap in a place like that.
Funnily, I was asking myself that question just as I saw the first picture, I can imagine that the pictures do the temple no justice, or the mysterious goosebumps and energy you feel when being in such a place.
I remember when I lived in Cape Town and went down to Cape Point, climbed down some rocks and was on the edge, nothing but the blue Atlantic ocean, green and rocks and really high wind.
Here's a picture I captured on that day below:
Looking forward to seeing where you go and what you share next.
I was a climber when I was yonger.
so I understand your feeling at the cliff.
The feeling at the cliff seemed as same as the Nirvana for me
It is great to see ancient places on the opposite side of the world - thanks for sharing!
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Nice pictures I like your post thank you for sharing
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Wow looks really cold. Nice post
Yes it was cold
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Amazing post & wonderful photos @slowwalker, thanks you so much
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Nice picture..
I like the heat more, but the pictures of the winter are great.
Yes, I like the heat in winter, and I like the cold in summer. lol
wow 1000 years and it still looks like that? incredible . nice pictures with the temple all covered in snow
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Glorious and wonderful scenery!
"What makes the place great is not a size or a scale but an accumulation of time and feeling."
true sir..it is the not the size which makes the temple a sacred place but the good feelings and thoughts of the people in there..and often hard routes lead to beautiful destinations..but most people miss it as they dont want to endure the hardships until the end :)
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calm and zen at the same time.
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Lovely shots. I love the dusting of snow over everything. funny - I also posted a temple today :)
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This isn’t in Busan, is it? I once visited a temple there that looked so much like this one. It brings back some fun memories.
There was a Cheonan near Dae Jeon in Choongcheong Nam Do
I see. I was in the wrong country. These temples look so much like what I have seen Korea, and you often post about there, so I thought maybe that’s where they were located. When I googled Choongcheong Nam Do, I was brought to China.
Interesting post. Thanks!
It is very hard to identify the statues may be due environmental degradation.I like that you enjoying the song along with the same condition that match with the lyrics .It is very rare to enjoy a song along with same lyrics .You mentioned about the sound of bell that is able to make you comfortable , here i would like to add a sentence that there is a scientific reason behind the bell sound that made you comfortable.
hahaha
It could be
Haha..
Thanks for this really interesting post and great photos. I particularly like the way the buildings are constructed on top of stone pedestals to even out the level of the land. It looks bloody cold though, I hope you wore a big furry hat! :-)
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Awesome Pictures and Amazing place shared . Thanks @slowwalker I am sure that you have enjoyed more. As I am having a great feeling by seeing the pictures and post . You have taken a professional pictures. I love this place and surroundings. Nowadays the whole world is under Snow and freezing temperature.
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