| The fortress-like front appearance, at about 600 meters altitude on the southern slope of 1507-meter Nogo-dan [Old-Woman Altar] Peak of Jiri-san National Park. Below: Sudo-am in context, shot from up the highway to the west. |
| Jiri-san Nogo-dan Sudo-am [Wisdom-Discernment Mountain Crone-Altar Peak Practicing the Way Hermitage] |
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| Fifth photo: The Main Buddha Hall, with small older San-shin-gak seen behind-right. |
| Sixth photo: The Mountain-King Great-Hall, with small older San-shin-gak still behind-right. |
| Stone name-tower at the entrance by the highway, designed to echo the famous Shilla-Dynasty "Four-Lion Pagoda" at Hwa-eom-sa (one of Korea's greatest temples, located at the foot of the slope south from here). Also (right), a signboard depicting the main Buddha-Hall. |
| Seventh Photo: inside the Mountain-King Great-Hall, bare wooden floors & walls, high
ceiling. Just a kind of a wooden stage making up
the sole altar, with a natural rock set exposed in its'
center. Set in the wall above the rock is the largest, most magnificent San-shin painting ever made in Korea -- maybe 12 feet high and 18 feet across!!! (4m x 6m). Stunning, complex, amazing. |
| Eighth Photo: the small older San-shin-gak up behind the Halls has an open front (no door), quite unusual. A painting of San-shin with two attendants is on the back wall, with his tiger shown separately on the right wall. The bi-seok stone pillar enshrined here reads simply "Steele of Mountain King". |