The Pagoda and The Stone Lantern in Muryang-sa Temple , Korea

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There are 5 story stone pagoda and the stone lantern in front of Mireuk-jeon which is the main building in Murynag-sa temple.

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Those stone structures are believed to be built in Goryeo dynasty. It means those structures have more than 1000 years of history

Even though the pagoda seemed to be made in Goryeo dynasaty, it had some traces of Baekjae pagoda style.

The area where the temple is located in seemed to be the central part of Baekjae dynasty.
So the skills and the crafts seemed to have been survived until they made the stone pagoda.
The appearance of that pagoda in Muryang-sa was similar to that of Jeonglim-sa temple which had been ruined for a long time ago.

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Actually the pagoda of Jeonglim-sa temple had been made several hundred years ago, it looked more balanced and excellent to the pagoda of Muryang-sa temple.

The stone lantern is said to be made in Goryeo dynasty like the stone pagoda.

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The stone lantern is not like to that of Beopjoo-sa temple which had been built after the unification of Korea by Shilla dynasty.
I already had introduced the stone lantern of Beopjoo-sa temple in previous posting.

But in general, the stone lantern and the pagoda looked suit very well with the main building, Mireuk-jeon.

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Artistry the stone pagoda
Beautiful pics in between
Thanks for exposure, you’re much appreciated

Wow....very wonderful photos...really i love your photography & post... My dear friend slowwalker..😘😍💕💕💕

Pagoda muryangsa-temple is very incredible sir,i like korean history sir @slowwalker

@slowwalker, It's gorgeous to see five stone pagoda and stone lantern in Muryang-sa Temple. I only see through your photo clicks stone lanterns in first time. Sri Lanka and Korea has different kind of Buddhism structures in temples. Green coloring trees and shades give outstanding looks to those structures of temple. Also oldest history indeed here. Nice to see every structures preserve yet without any destroying. It will more important to show future generation. Thanks for better description and professional photo clicks.

amazing @slowwalker, you are suitable to be a history expert, I like your photography, success is always for you.

Really awesome photography & very very beautiful place..i like it photo 📷

Excellent post and excellent your photography📷 i like it 😱

@slowwalker,
The old pagoda looks so wonderful to me! I think it happens due to yellow color of it! It made a wonderful photography with that nature! In my country pagoda has a different style! Most of them looks like a bubble! We call it as "Bubbulakara"! But in your country they got a different style!

Cheers~

this place seems full of peace. ❤ even though im not a buddhist i greatly respect this sight, ❤ I always wanted to live in Korea, i hope i will go there some day. I love the colors all pictures! The stone lantern is very beautiful. love your photography friend.

I Love the History and the Craftsmanship @slowwalker, there is Something very Calming about all of these Temple's and the Grounds that surround Them.......................

That’s a Beautiful pagode!!! Unbelievable how old it is already...

What a beautiful house

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amazingly cool and beautiful looking for photography, I really like @slowwalker posts

Great story. These pagoda and lantern are very beautiful. Thank you for continuing to talk about various Korean sights.

Nice place

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Great to learn about below. 1000 years old structures!!

Those stone structures are believed to be built in Goryeo dynasty. It means those structures have more than 1000 years.

This is a great place with full of architectural beauty. Thanks for sharing.

This is so amazing to watch out looking so great thanks for sharing these shots beautiful experience :)

It's always amazing what an architectural masterpiece one finds in Koreans or other Asian countries.

It seems that those who made the temple created the pagoda using the Baekjae dynasty.
The flashlight is very pretty, it seems to me that it is a little dropped to the side like the one you published a few days ago, but the design does not stop being very nice!
@slowwalker I'm doing the challenge that is called #inktober to make drawings daily throughout this month, according to the daily list today, the word "Angular" and I remembered some of the temples that you have placed where you talk about the cornerstone in the temples.

Looking from a distance it seems like the 5 story stone pagoda made of wood, because of separate stones that were placed vertically, but coming closer you realize that they are stone made. I believe that if it would be wooden one it probably had been destroyed by weather and rain and could not survive till nowadays. The basis of stone lantern is done with much love to details, they both in front of such magnificent building look amazing :)

Hey they Mr Walker! Reading your post totally reminds me of my days teaching English in Seoul. I used to teach the Vice President of Samsung Seoul Land Division. I also taught a bunch of high end lawyers and doctors, and it seemed no matter how well their English was they all made the same mistakes when it came to describing age

I hope you don't mind if I give you a little tip......Korean to English often does not translate well. So to say the stones have 1,000 years is very awkward. You would want to say the stone are 1,000 years old. Or are more than 1,000 years old. In Korean you seem to collect and have years, but in English you "are" an amount of years "old".

Hope you don't mind....you brought the English teacher out in me on this one.

On another note that I also hope you don't mind........

I'm trying really hard to get a community writing project off the ground.

It's basically going to be a travel (pro) report library for steemit and hopefully the online world at large with any success; a resource of information for destinations around the world. I'm collaborating with other travelers (travel pros) on steemit encouraging them to write reports with a specific format to keep the quality and style in sync. The reports/library can be found at @travel-report.

I just wrote the first one to get things started. It's on Chiang Mai Thailand, one of my favorite destinations in the world for many reasons.

Any support you can lend is greatly appreciated and it will encourage others to write reports too really giving some lift to this project.

Thank you for all your help, past, present, and future!

From Odessa Ukraine -Dan

Thank you for your correction.

Glad you didn't mind. I'll help you out on occasion. I'm an English Teacher :)

It's so amazing that people built this beautiful stone Pagoda 1,000 years ago so preciously without any advanced tools!
Awesome photos!

Still going strong with your awesome photos. It's always great to drop in and check out your posts after all this time :)

Well yes agreed they do suit with the Main building. I do like the pattern of the Building very much.

The Main building is indeed really beautiful and moreover the Stone Lantern does really looks quite great.

Thousand years history in front of us.