The Buildings for The Founding Monk of Tongdo-sa TemplesteemCreated with Sketch.

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The one of the most unique part in the formation and arrangement of Tongdo-sa temple seems the existence of the building for the founding monk of Tongdo-sa temple.

It is said that the monk ‘Jajang’ founded Tongdo-sa temple in 646 AD.
The entrance gate and the hall seemed to be made to the memory of the monk Jijang.

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In front of the entrance gate, there was a stone lantern. It means that they thought this building of very important.

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At first the entrance gate looked like as same as that of the civilian house in this time. It means that even though they built the building for the founder of this temple, this temple must be different from other halls for Buddha and Bodhisattva in this temple.

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The name of the building for the founding monk is ‘Haejangbo-gak’ meaning of “Sea preserve Jewelry House”. I don’t know how to explain it in English, anyway this name seems to express the importance of the monk. Here what I paid attention was they did write Gak in stead of Jeon.
As I posted before, Jeon means ‘Palace’, but Gak means ‘Great Building’.

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In northeastern society, with the influence of Confucianism, even the buildings had different name according to the importance and meaning of the Building.

Confucianism was the ethics of the order. So even the buildings needed to follow those orders of Confucianism. Buddhism was no exception.

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Beautifully crafted building temple @slowwalker and I think if they would paint the wooden structures once again it will turn more beautiful. The artisans that made it has indeed made another marvel of an edifice for the history of Koreans.

I heard it's very expensive to paint

@slowwalker,
I think this Lantern is not well balanced as you show the Lantern in last week! But I like the design of that building and the environment as well!

Cheers~

Thank you so much

Beautiful picture of a very interesting place..and Nice post. The temple looks amazing!

My friend slowwalker, how are you?
I enjoyed a lot your travelling to see. Many amazing photos you share.
I like your photography dear.

Thank you so much

from the shape of the Tongdo-sa temple building it is very unique with some of the beauty found on the roof of a special building that has extraordinary artistic value. Thank you for sharing. Greetings @slowwalker

Nice post. The temple looks amazing!

Beautiful picture of a very interesting place/building... I can imagine it must be very Inspiring to be there? Thanks for sharing this !

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