Road to the Tae Go Sa Temple 2 : from paradise to secular world

in culture •  7 years ago 

The altitude of the temple was too high to supply the provisions and the daily necessities.
I wondered how they could receive things what were needed in the temple.
There were so many monks and people who help the monks.
I asked to the monk I met in the temple how they could receive the supplies. At that time, several people including monks and ordinary people walked to the corner of the temple. A monk who talked with me asked to them whether they needed some help. And he told me that ‘go together help them then you understand how we receive supplies from down there.

At the corner there was a small cable car. They received supplies with a cable car. The cable car seemed so old, but it worked very well.

I took the photos of receiving supplies with the cable car.

They moved the supplies to the kitchen old fashioned. I know how the traditional kitchen was inconvenient. It is hard to see that kinds of old fashioned kitchen nowadays.

There was no air conditioner. OMG.

It was really sorry for people who cooked there.
Usually it is the newest monk’s work.

The most beautiful place in the temple was a bell tower. I don’t know how to name that building in english exactly. The bell tower seemed not proper as the name of that building.
Anyway the bell tower was awesome.

The bell tower was built over the rock.
I could look down mountains from there.

When I departed from the temple. I could look at the bell tower. There were 2 monks in the bell tower. I could feel they were laughing and talking together merrily. That scene was looked like a movie shot and really impressive.

While descending from the temple. I met 2 cats playing together.
They were almost wild cats. But strange thing is animals living around the temple seemed never afraid of people.
They were enjoying lazy day.

I got back from paradise in mind to the secular world.

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Beautiful shots.

How can cats be afraid? They're living in temple, special cats :)

Amazing culture, I want to be a monk I think, would be sick.

Lovely post.

😁

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Thats some interesting pictures. For me these are quite rare.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Always a great post by you @slowwalker i am proud to follow you :D Nice pictures.

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Thank you @inuk

I always wondered how the league of shadows got their supplies up there...

i can imagine the picture in my mind when i read your post , perfect ! thanks for sharing !

Thank you 😄

wow that cable car looks so packed! making me feel nervous. nice cat shots too! Wish I can take pictures as well as you. You seem to be able to capture the emotions and atmospheres of the scene so well!

Thank you for compliment

Interesting inside view to imagine people really live up there. The world is so big and people so unique

Still on yesterday's edition of the @slowwalker, always happy with your post, keep the spirit in providing content that is interesting and useful to all of us. Someday I hope I can go to visit the beautiful place as well as @slowwalker. Thank you very much for share this post to all of us, it is very interesting for me.

Thank you so much

You are welcome @slowwalker

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The temple complex is chiselled into the side of the mountain like an elaborate Buddhist grotto.

It's designed to be a retreat from the world and its remote location enables the monks to escape from worldly cares and live an ascetic life close to nature.

The steep and narrow paths and the cable car link to the world below signify detachment.

Your visit emphasized the gap between the sacred and profane; and as beautiful and peaceful as the surroundings were, you longed to return to the familiar secular world where you are comfortable.

There ia always a yin-yang tension in your art, @slowwalker - whether it be the modern vs. traditional, the past vs. the present, or the wealthy compared to the poor.

But although these forces seem opposite, they are in reality complementary, and suggest the interrelatedness of all these aspects of Man's world.

A thoghtful post, @slowwalker

Your professional interpretation is encouraging me to do more posting. Thank you

I'm glad, @slowwalker. You have the soul of an artist, and you are a great observer of things

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Very interesting place and the architecture is simply amazing

Here on this planet. But not here on this planet. Enviable to be able to live so far removed from the "rat race."

Me too

Awesome photos there! the architecture of the temple is great too, though I agree the people cooking must be really heat resistant!

loved the pic of cat scratching head, too awesome pic

Thank you

Oh! Really nice pics

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The kitchen is really old fashioned but just imagine who many people's food have been cooked there! Old but gold i will say!
Cheers
@progressivechef

Thank you

Nice post

lovely houses ,i would choose this life any day over city life

Great post, i will follow you and upvote everyday while you do same to me. a deal?

Amazing photos. Cable car is fantastic. Thanks

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Pretty smart way to deliver the goods to the temple.
Oh, it's situated on top of the rock! I hope they take a good care of the cats.

Once again a great blog post

Interesting pics and info

amazing place and awesome taken picture @slowwalker i agree this paradise

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Very beautiful journey you're having right now @slowwalker. Wish you all the best for your future journeys. You're a good soul .

Very nice, I liked the pictures, they could be in any movie, but even though the number was few, they sort of told a little story, about how daily life is and how people get by in the countryside of your country. I hope I understood. Thank You for sharing. I love seeing how rural people live in other countries.

What a beautiful structure. Thank you for sharing. :)

Wow that cable car is giving me all kinds of vertigo!

The kitchen looks old fashioned but its more than beautiful.. You most of the time post hidden beauties of Korea and its culture.. That's great.. I love your posts.. keep steeming

Friends, that's what temple. And if possible know whether the temple was built in the time of the first empire, or in modern times. Thank you @slowwalker and hopefully we will motivate each other.

muy buen post felicidades

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Nice shots

Slow 🚶 I think U captured all photos in good mood.

Good post.Thank alot for sharing.

Ho ! Interesting places

Good reportage and photos (again)!

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Wonderful Post. How long did you spend there? It looks like a place that can influence one's outlook towards life positively.

I bet the view from the top of that temple is amazing

good post^^

Posts like this make me wonder what the hell am I doing with my life. All over the world there is so much to see.

excellent photo

Amazing, nice post @slowwalker.

Wow! That looks like a beautiful tower. It was very cool to see the modern world (with the pulley system) mix with the old.

Hahaha

Wowww!! Looks like regularly stuff falls off though. Love the kittens :)

extraordinary. thanks for sharing

Your posts make me better. They give me opportunity to see more parts of Earth.
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Temples really have the most astonishing sceneries and it is better that wAy to find peacefull, far away from busy city.

my picture here in one of the temple in Bali.

Beautiful ocean underneath it.

Really cool

It is seriously such a wonderful post. I love your efforts and passion to work. I would love to visit the temple as located amazingly. I am going to follow you for your upcoming posts and have up voted your this post as well. I request you to follow me and up vote my first ever post so that we collectively help each other to make our roads strong on steemit. Thanks

love the cat :)

Thank you for this window into another world. What a way of life, to think i complain about going to the store to stock up on supplies. Have a blessed day!!

Nice shot... And the please looks so peaceful

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Really nice pictures, I like the architecture of the temple and the trees make the landscape so beautiful. Thank you for sharing

thats look so interesting.. how secluded the area...

atleast they have cable...to transport they needs... if they were to carry those boxes from downhill to up in there... thats really hardwork...

i love the simplicity if the life there.. the kitchen looks nice.. although its old...
i hope they can preserve the place and last for a lifetime

You need to live there

these are very beautiful pictures. this is an awesome presentation of this experience @slowwalker. thanks for sharing...if you had stopped climbing you would have seen less than you shared. thanks alot

Exactly,
That 's the principle of the life, isn't it ?

Nice photo @slowwalker i like it thank you for sharing

the cats steal the attention

That is one cool way to transport goods to the temple and to the area.
I'd be a little apprehensive and anxious about the fact if anything would fall off if there was a gust of wind haha
Amazing stuff @slowwalker

Beneath the cable car, there was nothing but trees no road

Wow the buildings you take photo's of are always so nice! Great job @SlowWalker! :)

Thank you for your compliment

Only a pleasure man. Stay awesome :)

Awesome. As always you bring us amazing pictures. At least I consider them amazing because I don't see something like that everyday :D

Lol

Wonderful photos, truely wish I could also visit this mysterious place and escape from the daily struggle and worries. Hmm...

That 's everybody's wish in my guess

The coolest way to deliver goods :)

Exactly

Incredible how to they this. This year march I was in Japan and visited many mountaintrail temples and there were also some small cafe's along the route...made me wonder how they would get everything up the mountain every day. On one occassion I actually say two mopeds going down on a slippery muddy mountaintrail after having made some deliveries. It was really unique to see I think, good thing I was able to take some good photos of it.

Thank you for your dropping by

I'd like to see the scenery from that temple. Thank you for sharing the story. @slowwalker

Thank you

  ·  7 years ago 

Amazing, I love these temples.

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Thank you my friend @slowwalker for continuing the amazing adventure!! I really would love to visit this mountain paradise!! By the way, your "Bell Tower" name is perfect for English. :-D

Thank you my friend

There is something similar in meteora Greece

Interesting, seems like if 1 corner fails, it tips over, a more effective solution would be to have one big cable in the middle of the top going threw the roof to the floor, and holding from the floor as well as the top, otherwise, I'll climb the side of the rocks or take a helicopter, that's tooo scary to me.

This is more sophisticated than temple

so peaceful .
cats are so sweet adding them makes it more meoow^o^
hehe :p

As always, your story is unique and interesting) Thank you for sharing with us))
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interesting as always

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Beautiful photos, beautiful place!
The cat on the last photo asks him to pat ))

I've always wanted to visit a temple... Thank u for the inside look into this special place =)

Wow,,,, Amazing, Looks like someday I have to go there, and enjoy the beautiful scenery.

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