It's been so long since I posted a blog I can barely remember how to write these things! It's been a really quiet couple of days here in Seoul, we have had a couple of rainy days cooped up in doors, and a couple of sunny days spent at the park. But today, we decided it would be wise to actually leave the house, so we hopped on the metro and headed into Bongeungsa to see the famous Buddhist temple.
The temple itself was similar in design and structure to the others we have seen, with the familiar multicoloured lanterns that form a ceiling which seems to move and sway above you. But the thing that made this temple so different was the Buddhist statues surrounding it, beautiful golden fish in the stream where the coins glittered like stars in a night sky, and lotus buds surrounded by silver mesh looked as though they would bloom with just a single second of sunlight peeking through the clouds.
A giant statue stood at the top of the hill on which the small temples clung, and watched over those who made their journey up the path to pray and place flowers at his feet, and we walked all around these grounds under his gaze. And on the journey back to the entrance, we crossed a bridge, where the statues of two life long loves we're held in an eternal dance, instruments poised at their lips, and eyes locked on each other as if willing the distance between them to be less.
The feeling of this temple was different to others we had seen before, and makes me excited to see more Buddhist temples in Nepal someday soon.
