Stone Lantern and Gwaneum-jeon Hall in Tongdo-sa

in #travel6 years ago

The whole area of Tongdo-sa temple is said to be divided into 3 parts.
The buildings between the one pillar entrance gate and the Buli-mun gate were belonged to the first area.

From this posting, I’d like to introduce the buildings of second area.
The second area is located between the Buli-mun gate and Daewung-Jeon hall which is the main building in this temple.

In my guess, the halls belonged to the second area are more splendid than others.

The first hall in the second area what I saw first passing through the Buli-mun was Gwaneum-Jeon.
Gwaneum is the Bodhisattva of great compassion.

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There was a lantern in front of the hall. It was very impressive. It looked like to be made in the era of Goryeo dynasty.
Usually the stone lantern was set up in front of important buildings.
It seemed that Gwaneum-jeon was the most important building in this area.
The balance of the stone lantern seemed not so excellent to that of Shilla dynasty. It was strange for me.

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Gwaneum-Joen hall is said the central building in the second area. Why did they think Gwaneum-jeon hall the most important in this second area ? In my guess, it is because the healing for ordinary people was the most important function in the second area as the first area. They believe that Gwaneum Bodhisattva is listening every voices of people and touch their sufferings with 1000 arms.

This gwaneum-jeon hall looked like to be built in late Goryeo dynasty, but this hall was also fired during the Japanese invasion 1592-1597 and rebuilt.

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@slowwalker,
Yes I could remember that you showed us Stone Lantern before! But this one is not well balanced! One of your photography perfectly showing it! Anyway stone lanterns are little bit new subject for Sri Lankans! Coz I have never see this type of Lanterns in my country before! Valuable and a great destinations of the history you reveal every day! Thank you!

Cheers~

lovely day to visit.

Some great thing you discovered there and it was nice to experience that through your blog post today thanks for sharing this :)

Nice place to travel. I always love to travel those kind of places. Thats called the historical place. Nice sharing dear.

고려시대 건축물 이라니
아주 오래 되었네요
일제시대 때 해고? 되었다는 것은
그들의 일부를 가져갔다는 것일까요?
번역 글을 읽어서 제가 잘 이해를 못 했을지도 모르겠어요 ㅎㅎ

stone latterns shape are wonderful.

Love it. And the fact that the colours are all non existance in there it give an amazing vibe of the place. Love it

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It looks so historical.
Loved it

So much history and beauty in the architecture. Terrific content! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the journey, about which you told. The photos are gorgeous, especially liked the last photo of a stone lantern.

Спасибо за путешествия, о котором Вы рассказали. Фото великолепны, особенно понравилась последняя фотография каменного фонаря.

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Although this hall was fired but it still beautiful structure.

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Wao Really such a most wonderful temple.Very impressive architecture of this temple.Very impressive building.Old tones looks so beautiful.Very great balancing of stones.Very great entrance of this temple.Very beautiful roof of this temple.You are so enjoying your travell.I also enjoying your travel.Thanks for sharing this unique temple pictures.

This place very peaceful; temple is look so beautiful.
Amazing very hard to do this kind of job , thanks for post my friend slowwalker.

The number of years that temple has is impressive although it was rebuilt the structure remains in very good condition, preserving the history and passing the teachings on to other people! Thanks for sharing the photos with us

마지막이 제일 팩트있고 경각심을 가지고 있어야 하는 말인 것 같습니다..
두번다시는 그런 일이 일어나서도 안되고...
역사을 잊어버려서도 안된다는 생각이 드네요..

부산 통도사, 아직 가보진 못했지만 많이 들어본 사찰입니다. 잘 알려진 사찰이지만 올려주신 사진으로 보아서는 화려함보다는 정갈한 아름다움이 있는 것 같습니다.

Indah sekali pemandangannya😙😙