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Temple: Daewonsa

2017 travel diary 3: Sancheong – two festivals in bright pink

posted 1 May 201711 Apr 2020 updated 11 Apr 2020 by Philip Gowman 5 minute read
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Donguibogam Village, Sancheong Country, Sunday 30th April, 5pm. Each time I visit Sancheong, something has changed. This time, on the edge of Donguibogam Village, Sancheong’s centre of traditional medicine culture, a comfortable hotel has been built – as far as I am aware, the first hotel (as opposed to pension) in the county. Very convenient […]

2010 Travel Diary #30: Daewonsa – early morning prayers and sutra painting

posted 31 Jul 201016 May 2020 updated 16 May 2020 by Philip Gowman 5 minute read
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Friday 7 May. I wake up at 3 o’clock. My body seems to be ready for early morning prayers even though I hadn’t signed up for them. I wanted to hear those moktaks and chants again, so I crawl into my clothes and stumble out to the main temple courtyard to wait for the prayers […]

2010 Travel Diary #29: Daewonsa – the 9 o’clock meditation

posted 31 Jul 201020 Apr 2020 updated 20 Apr 2020 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read
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Thursday 6 May. I’m not sure if the monks do their 108 bows every day. If they do, we did not see it because we did our bows in a separate chapel. And if they do, I’m sure they don’t listen to that CD when they’re doing it. But I was expecting the 9 o’clock […]

2010 Travel Diary #28: Daewonsa – the 108 Bows

posted 27 Jul 201020 Apr 2020 updated 20 Apr 2020 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read
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Thursday 6 May. The time has arrived for the 108 bows. Strangely, we are told to meet in the car park. But that’s where a large side chapel has recently been built, mainly to minister to visitors on the temple stay programme. The chapel at the moment has none of the internal decoration of the […]

2010 Travel Diary #27: Daewonsa – the magic at sundown

posted 24 Jul 201020 Apr 2020 updated 20 Apr 2020 by Philip Gowman 6 minute read
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Thursday 6 May 2010. A monk sits in the corner of the room, brewing yellow tea, while we sit on the floor around the main table. Perfectly ripe fruits are laid out in front of us, including some of Sancheong’s famous strawberries. The conversation rumbles on, I’m not sure about what, because it was all […]

2010 Travel Diary #26: Arrival at Daewonsa

posted 15 Jul 201020 Apr 2020 updated 20 Apr 2020 by Philip Gowman 3 minute read
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Thursday 6 May 2010. We drive up a winding road, through woodland on the side of a valley until we arrive in the car park of Daewonsa Temple, in the foothills of Jirisan mountain. We are met in the car park by a monk well known to our local guide. “She’s my favourite monk,” he […]

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