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| Ma-i-san Ok-su-sa [Horse-Ears Mountain Jade-Water Temple] North Jeolla Province, Spring 1999 |
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| LEFT: a new shot of Tap-sa [Pagoda Temple] at the base of Ma-i-san [Horse-Ears Mtn] in North Jeolla Province, featured on pages 167-169 of my First Edition. RIGHT: Ok-su-sa [Jade Water Temple] further up the trail, right between the two bizzare peaks. The sextagonal shrine up front is for Yi Taejo & Dan-gun. |
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| ABOVE: Portrait of Korea's first king Dan-gun; note the leaf-mantles (two different species!) on his shoulders and waist. Refer to pages 132-139 in my book. BELOW: a statue of a San-shin-dosa (see pages 28-29) in that same sextagonal shrine. |
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| ABOVE: a painting of the Ma-i-san-shin giving a magical sword to Yi Seong-gye, who used it to take over Korea and become founder of the Joseon Dynasty as Yi Taejo in 1392. Yi is said to have prayed to this San-shin in a cave there for 100 days, before he appeared. A painting of Yi Taejo as himself the San-shin of Ma-i-san is on page 34 of my book; after death he joined his "teacher" and took over the status.. He is a common deity used in Korean Shamanism, but this is the only mountain which he is regarded as the San-shin of. That great icon is now stashed away by the abbot, for security. |
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