View from top of Buddha carving

Temple Stay

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May 20th 2008
I'm so bad at writing blogs. But at least I write good ones when I do, but I'm usually so busy. This past weekend I went to a Temple Stay. It was just overnight and I wish so much that it was longer. It was actually down in Gyeongju where I went before. But farther out on a mountain. It was beautiful and so peaceful. Stress that I didn't even know I had disappeared. We had free time but a ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more