| Kings of both Dragons and Mountains on Geoje-do Island |
| Page Three -- the North Area |
San-shin icons at Hae-ryong-sa [Sea-Dragon
Temple] on Aeng- san Mountain in northern
Geoje Island, a remote and less-visited area.
Temple] on Aeng- san Mountain in northern
Geoje Island, a remote and less-visited area.
Also on sacred Aeng-san
[Buzzing Mountain],
Kwan-jeong-sa Temple hosts
these good San-shin (right,
note the rare tiger-cubs),
Yong-wang (below) and
Deok-seong [Lonely Saint]
(below right, note the "Starving
Buddha" motif).
[Buzzing Mountain],
Kwan-jeong-sa Temple hosts
these good San-shin (right,
note the rare tiger-cubs),
Yong-wang (below) and
Deok-seong [Lonely Saint]
(below right, note the "Starving
Buddha" motif).
The third Buddhist
site found on
Aeng-san is
Dae-seong-sa
[Great Sage Temple]
and as always on
the coasts, both
San-shin and
Yong-wang are quite
prominently
enshrined.
site found on
Aeng-san is
Dae-seong-sa
[Great Sage Temple]
and as always on
the coasts, both
San-shin and
Yong-wang are quite
prominently
enshrined.
You have to walk a long
way up a very bad road to
get to Geum-su-sa
[Silk-Thread Temple] on
Dae-geum-san [Great Silk
Mountain] in far-northern
Geoje-do. There, in front
of an older San-shin
painting, I found this
Yong-wang statue and
matched Shin-jung &
San-shin icons (done in the
Buddhist-sutra-illustration
style of gold-line drawings).
San-shin (L) and
Yong-wang (R) stand out in
the Shin-jung icon, with their
white whiskers.
way up a very bad road to
get to Geum-su-sa
[Silk-Thread Temple] on
Dae-geum-san [Great Silk
Mountain] in far-northern
Geoje-do. There, in front
of an older San-shin
painting, I found this
Yong-wang statue and
matched Shin-jung &
San-shin icons (done in the
Buddhist-sutra-illustration
style of gold-line drawings).
San-shin (L) and
Yong-wang (R) stand out in
the Shin-jung icon, with their
white whiskers.
And then on Nam-yeo-san
[Male-Female Mountain, a name
of Daoist yin-yang balance],
Jabi-sa Temple hosts this
excellent detailed
matched-set of
Deok-seong (see pages
100-103 in my book) and
San-shin paintings, as is
now relatively common up
in mainland Korea.
[Male-Female Mountain, a name
of Daoist yin-yang balance],
Jabi-sa Temple hosts this
excellent detailed
matched-set of
Deok-seong (see pages
100-103 in my book) and
San-shin paintings, as is
now relatively common up
in mainland Korea.