Beauty of Boseoksa, harmony of nature and artifact.steemCreated with Sketch.

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Beauty is a relative thing.
Everything in the world has its own beauty.
You can find different beauty depending on your perspective of view.
Close observation and sensitivity are required to enjoy the beauty.
Through many travels, I recently learned that the most important way of enjoying the beauty of something is to accept it as itself.

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The traditional temples I visited had their own particular characteristics.
Although they looked similar, with a close look, you could find the uniqueness of each temple.

Boseoksa was also a beautiful temple. Boseoksa means a temple of jewel.
According to the legend, Boseoksa was made of the gold, mined from the mountain near the temple, 1300 years ago. That’s why it was named as a temple of jewel.

The beauty of Boseoksa is a proper combination of nature and artifact.
Though buildings were not many nor particularly unique, the temple and the nature surrounding it harmonized very well.
If the building is too grand, then it blinds the beauty of nature. In the opposite case, the building is overwhelmed by the landscape.

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In Boseoksa, I saw an old artificial pond.
It seemed as if it was formed naturally because the pond and the surrounding went well together.
Even if something looked very natural, with close observation, you could find out that it was touched by a human’s hand.

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That mysterious harmony of nature and artifact made me peaceful in Boseoksa.
I saw some jangdogdae in the corner of the temple. Jangdogdae is a large bowl to keep and to ferment Korean traditional seasonings.
Korean use Jangdogdae because most of the Korean traditional seasonings need to be fermented.

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Some old ladies came out after practicing Buddhist service.
I took pictures of them because they harmonized well with this temple.

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The most famous thing in this temple is a 1000-year-old ginkgo tree.
it is about 20 meters high.
People hung notes written their wish on the tree.
I wonder what this ginkgo tree has seen through 1000 years.
Before entering the temple, I rested in a quiet place and enjoyed that moment.

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  ·  5 years ago (edited)Reveal Comment

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Wow what a beautiful nature around!
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Yes, brother, we have a beautiful view around us that we can see only if we take a little care.It is important to have a good mindset, just to see the beauty of nature.!

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Yes! A good mindset makes life flourish!

1000 years old! I had no idea ginko trees lived that long. It is a thing of pure beauty.

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I have seen ancient olive trees, And sequoias, but just never new that ginkos could live so long!

Beauty is a relative thing.
Everything in the world has its own beauty.
You can find different beauty depending on your perspective of view.
Close observation and sensitivity are required to enjoy the beauty.

@slowwalker, What a marvelous point you suggest here. Before watch photo clicks above line very inspired me lot. Excellent and completely agree with you. Yeah..every travel experiences giving biggest memory to us. Boseoksa temple seriously jewel no only Koreans. It's jewel for world wide people from my point of view. Why I'm saying that? Here's old properties 100% golden to current and next generations. Surrounding landscape and temple's assets really matching with each other. Glorious explanation and photo clicks.

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Beautiful and evergreen

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Awesome Place And What A Nice Click.

Thank you :)

That's an amazing nature. I can feel the silent beauty of this. Just awesome place.
Thanks for sharing with us.

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Most welcome.

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It is very beautiful!

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It seems to be a very Peaceful place.I am wondering why the put a note on the tree.What s the history behind it.?

Any one Knows about it?

There is a legend in Korea that the spirits in an old tree make people's wish come true!

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Wonderful

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Wow nice. The pictures are beautiful. I think, The place is very quiet. And full of green nature.

I am a natural lover. I love nature very much. I think we should go to such a quiet place like this. Such places greatly enhance the joy of our hearts.

Of these photos in your post, I really like this big tree. The tree looks like an old tree and this kind of old tree is didn’t available in here. So I like these old traditions very much. Many thanks to you for giving us the opportunity to see such a beautiful post.

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It was great to hear. Keep it up. Life be happy.

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Hello I received a few downvotes from you and I guess that is because I downvoted this post. Apologise for that as I recently join some downvote trails without researching or understanding it. Thought it was targeting bidbots. Sorry about that. Downvote removed.

Beautiful and so peaceful this place looks outstanding shots you shared so nice to see that

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Sorry for being so late, just too long working day, nevertheless I was able to read the posts only had no time to write. This post with the pictures are immediately caught my attention. The scenery could be anywhere, the nature in Korea and Europe not so much different.

What I noticed lately with the time when we get older we start appreciate such small things like little ponds with in parks. I love the parks and trees, I love early morning sky when I go to work, this time of the year it is very beautiful colors especially the clouds are pink closer to sun and violet on opposite side. I do not think I thought about such things when I was younger.

That old tree just reminded me us, humans, who using sticks and frame to be stable. The circumference is impressive and the little notes around are they wish notes? We see such often in Europe.

Beautiful photo.

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Such a beautiful place to live.Natural beauty everywhere.