OK, here’s some new photos, of a place I’ll bet you haven’t been (I haven’t either, but a few buddies of mine made it) — Korea’s remotest temple. Or, if you know a remoter one, I’d sure like to hear about it… The Baekdu-daegan Expeditioners visited it along their way (3rd day). Today (11th day) they achieved Namdeogyu-bong, the 1500-m southern peak of Deogyu-san National Park — so far, going so good.
Myohyang-am
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Tied for Korea’s highest temple, too, far as i can figure.
No juvenile jokes about “mysterious fragrance” resulting from improper outhouse-sewage-ventilation, or a onggi-jar of spoiled kimchi, PLEASE… the monks have already heard them…
Fascinating. I want cold, hard numbers, though: in terms of kilometres from the nearest town, is it verifiably the remotest temple?
Truth be told, your Kiwi gents’ journey was the inspiration for me to get on with my vocabulary list: just bite off a small morsel each day in an ongoing trek to an identifiable goal: Sŭraksan in their case, and getting to the ㅎ’s in mine! (They’ll likely be finished before I am, though.)
D’oh! “Sŏraksan,” not “Sŭraksan.”
Seorak-san, actually! in MY lists…
Face it, M-R is a dyin’ dog.
This is great.
You have reminded me of the adage that says when the road to the temple gets paved, there is no darma to be found there.
Most remote?
What? There is no temple on Dok-do? Well then, that settles it. “Takeshima” it is.
Funny thing is, these days I use the new romanization by default (faster to type and you don’t have to worry about 된소리), and would have just typed “Seoraksan.” Somehow, the McCune-Reischauer just kind of came out of me.
Don’ worry, i was just Romanization-trolling…
> the adage that says when the road to the temple
> gets paved, there is no dharma to be found there.
Yeah? Cool adage but i never heard it before, R. Elgin
– what the source of it, or where did you hear it from?
Now there’s a phenomenon in need of a word! “Romanization-trolling.” I’d never thought of it as a distinct concept, but now that you’ve coined a term for it, I’m totally seeing it. Brilliant!
Romatrolling, shall we call it?
Too bad we no longer have Kushibo to take the bait…
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