Bulguksa Temple

The temple front is divided between two staircases, called the "Four Bridges" leading from the temporal to the spiritualrealm. For obvious reasons, you are no longer allowed to walk up them, so tourists enter the spiritual realm by the back route.

Gyeongju Day 2

September 14th 2012
In almost British style, the drizzle set in today - no torrent like my first day in Korea (thankfully), but enough to be irritating. Undeterred, I headed for the temple at Bulguksa ("bool-guh-ksah"), a quite stunning Buddhist monastery (only parts of which are open to the public as the monastery itself is still practising) to the South East of the city. Me, and a hundred school kids on a day ... 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

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