The Main Building, Daewung-Jeon, In Seonwun-sa Temple, Korea

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The space of Seonwon-sa temple was wider than other temples of this area.
But the architect who designed Seonwon-sa temple had organized the space of the temple very well.
Even though there were many buildings in Seonwon-sa temple, each buildings had proper space for its own characteristics and functions.

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Daewung-Jeon in Seonwun-sa was so nice. They had used bent woods for the pillars like other buildings.

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Daewung-Jeon in Seomwun-sa was so awesome as much as that of Ssanggye-sa.
The most beautiful building in this area of this ear must be Ssanggyeo-sa temple Daewung-Jeon.
I has posted this temple last year.
In my opinion, Daewung-Jeon was the masterpiece among the architectures in this era.

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Daewung-Jeon in Seonwun-sa was not so grandiose to that of SSanggyeo-sa temple which was located in Nonsan city of 100 KM distance from Seonwun-sa.

But Daewung-Jeon of Seonwun-sa was one of the biggest buildings in this area.
Let's look around the out appearances of this Building.

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It was not possible to take pics of the front due to the lanterns.

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It was prohibited to take inside of Daewung-Jeon, so I took the pics from far away.
There were 3 Buddha statues in Daewung-Joen. Each Buddha had its unique hand gestures.

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One of hand gesture was so interesting.

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I asked the meaning of that hand gesture, but nobody answered my question.
What I know was this Buddha was the source and the principle of all existence.
Even though this Buddha had human appearance, it was not a human but an existence without appearance.
It seemed that the concept of this Buddha was as similar as God of Aristotle.

I searched the internet the meaning of that hand gesture bending center finger and putting that on another center finger, but I could not find out that meaning.

There was a stupa in front of Daewung-Jeon.
It’s style was as same as Goryeo Dynasty stupa.

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Some Stupas made in Goryeo Dynasty was strongly influenced by Mongolian Buddhism.
It seemed that the stupa in Seonwun-sa was made in Goryeo Kingdom after the invasion of Mongol.

It was so nice to walking around this Daewung-Jeon.

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