Take A Trip To The Byeonsan area And The Beauty Of The Entrance Naeso-sa Temple.
Me and my colleagues promised to look around Byeonsan area which was famous for it’s geological beauty. Byeonsan was designated as the National geological park. More over, there are several famous Buddhist temples which had more than 1000 thousand years history.
Byeonsan is a part of Jeonranamdo province located in southwest from Seoul.
The transportation to get there was not so convenient.
So me and my colleagues had planed to drop by this area for a long time.
In this travel, our first interest was looking around Buddhist temples in this area.
As you know, I have posted on Buddhist traditional temple for a while.
The reason why we planed to visit Buddhist temple in this area was those temples had had some historical meaning.
Most of old temples were built in Baekje Dynasty and destroyed in Japanese invasion in Choson dynasty during 1592 - 1598.
Destroyed temples had been rebuilt after the war.
I’d like to introduce you Naeso-sa temple at first.
I had heard the beauty of Naeso-sa, especially the entrance road was famous for its romantic atmosphere.
As soon as we arrived at Naeso-sa temple, the old tree waited for us, it was more than 600 years old.
People we met at the temple explained there were lots of old trees and the road to the entrance was so amazing.
There was a stone table in front of the old tree. .
The resident people is said to hold a long traditional ceremony every year for the memory of this old tree
The road was about 0.5 mile distance from the entrance gate of one pillar structure to the main building of this temple.
This one pillar column gate had a very specific structure of the roof.
The roof was sustained with only one column of the pillar, so the structure of sustaining the weight was very special.
Below is the image of the structure for sustaining the roof.
All weight was converged into the one point.
The road was covered with the shadows of lots of fir trees.
The green colors of fir trees were so soft and made me peaceful.
And finally when we arrived at the main gate, we could see the temples through the main gate.
Naeso-sa was surrounded by the green mountains of the early summer.
There were some old trees in the temple ground and those trees witnessed the history of the temple.
Let's look around more in detail about Naeso-sa temple in next posting.
These ancient trees are fantastic. witnesses of time. Respect for these green monuments is very important.
A very peaceful post today, @slowwalker. Trees have a way of cleansing the eye - Green is a restful colour.
It's interesting that people visit ancient temple sites and the thing that intrigues them is not the architecture or the history but the longevity of trees.
We expect inanimate things made from stone to endure, but we are drawn to living things like trees that have survived six centuries and more and are still putting forth leaves.
Life in general is stubborn and persistent but when we see individual examples such as this long-lived tree, we are enchanted with the wonder that it was alive back in the Middle Ages, before Columbus discovered America.
That is why we are fascinated with history and the past - we are drawn to vestiges of aspects of life that have endured - and this is why space exploration is not just landing probes or rovers on barren planets, but the search for life. This is what fascinates and motivates us - not the shells of past cultures or desolate worlds, but the mystery of life and survival itself.
A thought-provoking post, my friend :)
such a beautiful place..
Hi,
Amazing place!
Recently had the privilege to visit a famous Japanese Tea Garden at San Francisco
Keep posting such nice travel blogs!
Regards,
Suman
Wow. This is a beatiful national park. It looks very peaceful and relaxing. Also is full of history. As you said about the wars, I'm imagining the scenes where the temples were destroyed and then people began to rebuild from scratch. I sense a lot of energy only by seeing this. Some day I'd like to trip to a place like that.
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wow its beautiful for visit ....i like the temple inner design so much ...wish to visit sometime
Naeso-sa is a beautiful temple @slowwalker, it surprises me like its beautiful sculptures, the tree and the rock table that is surrounded by coins, the structure with a single column, the very interesting one that I hope with the following ones.
thank you.
What an amazing place to visit. It looks absolutely beautiful.
好漂亮的地方呀！