http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 7 Sep 2008 07:10:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83467 sanshinseon Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:45:18 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83467 Yeah, i was just teaching my (Korean) students about Gyeongju's great Hwangnyong-sa temple and they just assumed that the Japanese had destroyed it (and burned Bulguk-sa), but no, it was the Mongols, i told them -- and they did not express any ill feelings towards Mongolia. Yeah, i was just teaching my (Korean) students about Gyeongju’s great Hwangnyong-sa temple and they just assumed that the Japanese had destroyed it (and burned Bulguk-sa), but no, it was the Mongols, i told them — and they did not express any ill feelings towards Mongolia.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83398 SomeguyinKorea Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:16:08 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83398 I'm waiting for netizens to start accusing the Japanese of having toppled the statue. I’m waiting for netizens to start accusing the Japanese of having toppled the statue.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83322 seouldout Thu, 31 May 2007 12:42:17 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83322 UPDATE: Stanford wannabe and Santa Clara commando Azia Kim discovered posing as 5-meter tall Buddhist rock carving. UPDATE: Stanford wannabe and Santa Clara commando Azia Kim discovered posing as 5-meter tall Buddhist rock carving.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83296 sanshinseon Thu, 31 May 2007 10:00:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/05/31/massive-stone-buddha-carving-discovered/#comment-83296 WOW, that's a fantastic find. I'll be fascinated to see the entire statue once they set it upright; those pictures are just a horrible tease. No surprise at all that it's at Nam-san -- probably plenty more still left unexcavated there, beyond the hundred or so sites and artifacts already found and listed. I know that mountain pretty well and love it deeply -- i wonder where this statue actually is? -- the photo caption says 열암곡 "Yeolam-gok" [Vinaya Rock Valley?] and i don't know where that is -- my most detailed book lists 26 valleys of Nam-san, and none of them have that name. Does anybody know where this is...? WOW, that’s a fantastic find. I’ll be fascinated to see the entire statue once they set it upright; those pictures are just a horrible tease. No surprise at all that it’s at Nam-san — probably plenty more still left unexcavated there, beyond the hundred or so sites and artifacts already found and listed. I know that mountain pretty well and love it deeply — i wonder where this statue actually is? — the photo caption says 열암곡 “Yeolam-gok” [Vinaya Rock Valley?] and i don’t know where that is — my most detailed book lists 26 valleys of Nam-san, and none of them have that name. Does anybody know where this is…?

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