The Scenery and Loneliness of Seong Bool Sa Temple in Snowy Day

in #travel7 years ago

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.

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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.

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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.

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(Buddha)

It was not easy to identify Buddha

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(16Great Monks)

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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.

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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.

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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.

yes its awsome.
thanks.
lets connected.
@qami

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!