After finishing looking around the Buddha relief in Bota-sa near the Korea University, we rode to another temple which was located one hour distance by car from Bota-sa. My friend guided me there was a same style of Buddha relief in Okcheon-am.
Here ‘am’ means a small size of temple. Okcheon means clean stream.
The style of the Buddha relief was as same as that of Bota-sa.
The relief was painted with white color and designated as the National Treasury.
The pavilion was built to protect the Buddha relief.
The face of the Buddha was similar to that of the Bota-sa.
It was carved on the rounded rock, so it must be not easy to carve the rock.
This similarity means that those two Buddha statues were built in the same period.
It may be an ages between Goryeo and Choson dynasty.
There were several lanterns behind the pavilion.
Lanterns were hung for the memory of the birth of Buddha.
There were small figures on the corner stone of the pavilion.
It was so cute, so I photoed them.
It was strange that I never had noticed the Buddha statue in this place, even though I had walked this area so often when I was in high school.
There was a Mountain god pavilion near the Budda statue.
Some women had sat for a long time and had prayed there.
One different aspect in this Mountain god pavilion from other ones was there was a mountain god stone relief instead of the painting.
The mountain god statue was very well carved.
When we compare those statues with other statue, we can realize how those reliefs were well made.
I have lived more than 40 years in Seoul, but my foreigner friend knows better than me.
This chance made me look around the whole Buddhist temple one by one in Seoul city.
By this chance, I found out ghat there were lots of old temples in Seoul.