Yeongsan-Jeon Hall in Tondo-sa Temple, Korea

in #travel6 years ago

There were 3 very meaningful halls before the final entrance gate in this temple
In this posting, I’ d like to introduce the one of those halls. The name of this hall was Yoengsan-Jeon which had been built in the memory of one of the most important teaching of Buddha. This teaching, the Lotus Sutra, is the most important Bible in Buddhism of North East Asian Countries.

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The name of this temple, Tongdo-sa, has the meaning that the place where the Lotus Sutra was taught and this temple could be linked together, even thought two places were far away between India and Korea.

In this meaning, the Yeongsan-Jeon has very important meaning in this temple.
There were 3 meaningful buildings between the one pillar entrance gate and the Buli-mun gate which was the final entrance for entering the temple.

In the left place of Yeongsan-Jeon, there was the paradise hall , and the in the right place , there was Yaksa-Jeon serving for Buddha of the medicine and healings.

The structure and the arrangement of the buildings of the paradise hall, Yeongsan-jeon and Yaksa-jeon seemed not common in other Buddhist temple.

Usually the each building has one pagoda in Buddhist Architecture in Southern area, but there was one pagoda for these 3 buildings. This kind of the arrangement style seemed to be inherited from Gokuryeo dynasty which had been existed in the northern part of Korea and the Manchuria.

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I could not confirm exactly the arrangement of the halls came after the style of Gokuryeo dynasty.
But I was very curious about that.

The common pagoda of those three buildings seemed to be made in Goryeo dynasty after Shilla dynasty.

It was unknown when this building was built, but it was said to be fired in 1713 AD and rebuilt.

There was a stone lantern in front of Yeongsan-jeon.

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There were the paintings showing the Scenes Buddha was teaching the Lotus Sutra as below.

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I miss being around Buddhist culture. So my girl and I just canceled out trip to South America this winter and are heading to South East Asia. Great people, Great culture. Thanks for sharing and thank you for your continued support as well. Have a great day. -Dan

I wish you a nice trip to South east Asia in this winter

you always keep writing and let me know more through your post , thanks for sharing @slowwalker.

Thank you for reading

It's a better traveling area around the world

lol man lol!!.,,,.....

Very nice article, interesting and additionally great photos. I envy you such trips. Regards and I will be more interested in your blog.

Such an amazing place and there is almost no one around! It looks like you had it all for yourself!

Actually there were lots of people.
I waited for the moment of no people around there

Clever! I do the same and then people ask me exactly what I asked you :)

I can wait for a few minutes at one spot, looking in my camera and waiting for the right millisecond without no people around :)

Wao very beautiful temple,Very great entrance of this temple,very wonderful places,this is an historical temple,Wonderful tress,Very old buildings,Buildings looks so great,thanks for sharing,

Thank you so much

Excellent excursion. After I found out what the pagoda means, I began to look at it differently.

Отличная экскурсия. После того, как я узнал, что означает пагода, я стал по-другому смотреть на нее.

very beautiful arts and crafts in Yeongsan-Jeon Hall korea... great post.. this temple is good for visit...

천년사찰 통도사.
저녁 예불 전에 방문해보면 새로운 경험이 됩니다.^^

그런가요
저녁에 다시 가보아야 겠군요

잘 짜여진 음악공연을 보는 듯 할 거예요.^^