The Great Bell in Gyengju city of Korea, The Bell of King Seongdeok the Great

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The Bell has had very important meaning in Buddhism. They has stoke the bell in Buddhist temple to awake everything from the darkness and to give a peace and a rest for everything.

The Bell was as same as the words of Buddha to everything existed in the world.
In this point, the bell between Christianity and Buddhism is quite different.

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The most important relic on the ground of Nation Museum in Gyeong Ju was a Seongdeokdaewang singing which could be translated in ‘the Bell of King Seongdeok the great.
I could see the Bell in the corner of the ground. I couldn't understand why they displayed the Bell in the corner of the Museum.
In my opinion, the Bell is the core of Shilla dynasty relics.

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This bell was made in 771 AD in memory of King Seongdeok in Shilla dynasty after the unification of Korean peninsular.

This bell is the biggest and the heaviest in Korea.
(The height of 3.75 m, the width of the mouth of 2.27m, the thickness of 11-25 cm and the weight of 18.9 ton)

It was amazing this size of bronze bell could have lasted for more than 13 centuries.
The more amazing thing is the bell is still working normally in these days.

The really awesome thing is the sound of this bell is unbelievably beautiful. It has the longest sound pulse among the Bells in the world. If you strike once this bell, the sound can continue for several minutes due to the resonance of the bell.

Bell Sound

The sound spreads like a thick fog into our chest and mind when you hear this sound.

When I was an elementary school pupil, I could hear the sound of striking this bell. Many scientists had studied the phenomenon of the mysterious sound, but they failed to find out the mysterious sound.

Now we could not strike the bell anymore to preserve the bell longer.

Besides the mysterious sound, the structure and the patterns were unique and famous for it’s beauty.

There is a pipe of the sound on the head of the bell. This sound pipe is unique structure in Korean bell. The mysterious resonance was believed to be made by the sound pipe.

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There are lots of small round projecting parts which are called as nipple of the bell in four directions.
I don’t know the reason why they named those structure the nipples.
But in my guess, the nipples of bell is a metaphorical expression of that the sound of the bell is the milk of life.

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The one of the impressive design is an angel pattern on the Bell.
The name of the pattern is ‘Bi Cheon Sang’ which means ‘flying angel statue’

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The lower part was decorated with various patterns.

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The technic of carving this delicate pattern on the surface of the bell would be not easy in these days. But they made this delicate pattern1300 years ago.

I heard It is not easy to reproduce the bell even today.
Technic seemed to be not always progressive.

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the bell is so huge...

This antique of a treasure from the Shilla dynasty is really amazing piece of mastery by the people who made it about more than 1300 years ago. Koreans really are unique people in terms of industry leaders too

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Thank you for your compliment behalf of our ancestors

This is interesting,a wonderful picture to behold

Thank you. Very informative.

Yes, I heard It is not easy to reproduce the bell even today.
Technic seemed to be not always progressive

Great photo!

Great pictures. Thanks for travelling on our behalf...am glad being exposed to these...

amazing history post thank for shearing

amazing photography.

@slowwalker, this is so refreshing, i once said when the culture of a people is lost, their value is gone.

The culture of the Korean has been upheld for many centuries though i never knew that the bell between Christianity and Buddhism is quite different. Thanks for bringing this to my awareness

Thank you for reading

I have never ever saw such a large bell. During travel in Korea you take a awesome pictures. A historical bell which is related to King seongdeok. Thanks @slowwalker for sharing important Infos. My UPVOTE for you as a Support.

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I must say this bell looks really huge its beauty is incredible.....loved the designs into it...thanks for sharing about it....its worth reading.

Such landmarks and these symbols reflect the same history as the civilization that is built for any country and a place among the world has done good friend

Woah, that bell is really big. I wonder how it would sounds

loved your post, thanks so much for all the hard work ^^

Thank you for your reading

bell is very important, and usually its a bell on a place where it is a frequent place to visit people to worship in korea, success for you @slowwalker and his story is very interesting, and I really like to read your post, and I always get experience from your post about korean history,

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thank you as always

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