The Gate At The End Of The Road And It's Meaning

Finally I arrived at the last gate to the temple.
The name of that gate was “il joo moon”

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Il joo moon means one column of pillars.

It seems that there is "Il joo moon" in almost of Buddhist temples.
I don’t know why they have built one column of gate in Buddhist temple.

Inside of the gate was so impressive.
Those structures were made for supporting the weigh of the roof.

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There were the carvings of the dragons inside of the gate

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There were two stone sculptures of animal
It looks like a monkey.
Why did they carve the monkey statues in front of the gate ?

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Interesting thing is there was another road to enter into the temple without passing through the gate.

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If they made an another road detouring the gate, why did they make the gate ?

I suppose there must be some meaning of Buddhist theory in making the road and the gate together.

Buddhism looks like a religion of the metaphor.

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