Some other Hermitages up behind Shinwon Temple, on the way up to Gyeryong-san's Yeon-cheon Peak
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Excellent paintings of Daoist/Zen Shin-seon [Spiritual-Sages or "Immortals"] in the alpine wilderness,
practicing yogic techniques of absorbing special energies from the mountain and "Heaven" (the
Universe). From Bo-gwang-am.
At Go-wang-am [Ancient King
Hermitage] yet further up the slope,
a Maitreya Buddha has been
"manifested" from a granite cliff
(see this page) below a magnificent
lone pine tree, and an outdoor
San-shin shrine has been set up
against the cliff over to its right.
Inside it, an old stone icon reads
in Chinese: "Gye-ryong-san-shin
seok-bi" [Rooster-Dragon Mountain-
Spirit stone tablet]. Strange
designs are on the edges; little
buddha statues hold the names of
San-shin donors. There is no
San-shin painting included here.
The Deok-seong painting below
is excellent and fully detailed.






Live-action Mountain-worship going on at a boulder behind Bo-gwang-am [Treasure-Brightness Hermitage], which is
the first temple on the trail up towards Yeon-cheon Peak from the Golden Dragon Hermitage, behind "Garden of the
Spirits" Monastery, on the south-western slopes of Rooster-Dragon Mountain. Lower-right is the simple, basic
matched-pair of Deok-seong and San-shin paintings enshrined there. San-shin holds a ginseng root and a leaf-fan;
the boy offers sacred peaches.
RIGHT: the somewhat crude San-shin painting
enshrined at Deung-un-am Hermitage just below
Yeoncheon Peak. San-shin holds a very rare
triple-head bullocho sprig [yeongji-beoseot,
lingzhi, reshi mushroom]. The boy offers sacred
fruits. Photos of the peak itself and an outdoor
Mountain-worship shrine just between it and
this temple are on the first page of this series.