Myohyang-am

by sanshinseon on September 12, 2007

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.

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1 sanshinseon September 12, 2007 at 11:43 pm

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…

2 sewing September 13, 2007 at 2:31 am

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.)

3 sewing September 13, 2007 at 2:32 am

D’oh! “Sŏraksan,” not “Sŭraksan.”

4 sanshinseon September 13, 2007 at 9:49 am

Seorak-san, actually! in MY lists…
Face it, M-R is a dyin’ dog.

5 R. Elgin September 13, 2007 at 12:56 pm

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.

6 red sparrow September 13, 2007 at 1:42 pm

Most remote?

What? There is no temple on Dok-do? Well then, that settles it. “Takeshima” it is.

7 sewing September 13, 2007 at 3:13 pm

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.

8 sanshinseon September 13, 2007 at 8:00 pm

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?

9 sewing September 13, 2007 at 11:06 pm

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!

10 sanshinseon September 14, 2007 at 9:42 am

Romatrolling, shall we call it?
Too bad we no longer have Kushibo to take the bait…

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