| Our trip to the South Coast of Korea, November 2002, Page 2 |
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| The Dasan Chodang is a charming hermitage/school, on a thickly-forested slope just south of Kangjin Town. Here the great 18th-century Neo-Confucian philosopher "Tea Mountain" Jeong Yak-yong lived in exile for more than a decade, sharing ideas and green tea with local Buddhist monks. |
| Historic Mihwang-sa, the southern-most temple on the Korean Peninsula mainland, way down on the Haenam-bando, at the stunningly beautiful Dalma-san [Bodhidharma Mountain], which now claims to be a Provincial Park. It certainly deserves to be! |
| Geumgok-sa [Golden Valley Temple] just north of Kangjin has an amazing natural-rock "gateway" (the building in front is a restaurant) and good dragons protecting the Main Hall. |
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| Two rainy-day shots of Cheon-gwan-sa, way up a long bad road on Cheon-gwan-san, which has also been newly designated a Provincial Park. It features a 1000-year-old pagoda. |
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| Gaji-san Bolim-sa was the first Korean temple to host the Meditation-only [Zen] sect, about 800 AD. Remaining there are plenty of excellent granite artworks and a rare iron Buddha. |
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