3 Buddhas and Trinity, Inside of the temple

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Inside of this temple was also quiet different from that of other temples in it’s decoration and ornaments

There were 3 Buddhas in the praying room which was common in every temple in Korea.

Something special in this temple was there were treasures inside of the Buddha statue.
When the Buddha statue was made, they put many things into the statue.
For several years they needed to open open the Buddha statue to repair. At that time lots of things, for example, record of the making the Buddha statue and the History of the temple, clothes, small buddha statue, even there was a skeleton of baby were found inside of the Buddha Statue.

What attracted my eye first was ceiling. Actually every thing in this room was very impressive.
On the ceiling I could find birds as Gwan Chock Sa. I had posted on white bird of wild geese.
Here I saw birds as same as those of Gwan Chock Sa.

Some of my acquaintance told me that birds on the ceiling was not wild geese but cranes. I don't know which one is correct. I asked about this problem. But even Buddhist monk did not give me exact answer.

Bird of center was a phoenix.

Phoenix in Buddhism was believed as a messenger from heaven to this world.

There were 3 palaces having name of the palace for each Buddha.
Each Buddha statue had it’s palace.

Each palace has it’s own name.

The name of this palace is 7 treasures palace

This palace is for Amitabha Buddha

The meaning of this palace is Ending affliction palace
It is for Sakyamuni Buddha and main palace.

The name is Full moon palace

It is forMedicine Buddha

Each palace had beautiful ornaments of lotus and dragons

The face of dragon looks funny.

May be they'd like to show the friendly expression to people.

In my guess, Christianity and Buddhism have some similarities in doctrine.
Trinity and 3 Buddhas are the representative aspect.
3 Buddhas in Mahayanist Buddhism is as same as Trinity in Christianity in my opinion.

Similar to trinity, it is believed that 3 Buddha seemed believed to come from one Buddha.