😨😨😨 POOR EGG!!!
This is part of the #Sanjusangendo temple. These are replicas of the deity Kannon. Kannon has 1000 arms, so each statue has 42 arms in rows of 25 (to cover the 25 planes). Altogether it means it represents the 10000 arms. They each also have several heads. Supposedly they have 10 heads with which to see human suffering and 10 times that many arms with which to eliminate human suffering. They are protected by the statutes of the warriors (most of which are deities from the Hindu faith–i.e. Braham is a guardian of the Kannon here, but the God of Creation in Hindu). There are hundreds of these and they date back to the 1200s.
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One of my favorite places,to visit in #Seoul is the park at #Yeouido. I visited Seoul in 2013 during June and it was already SO HOT that my plans of wandering the city died pretty quickly. Instead I packed picnic lunches and spent a week mostly wandering from air conditioned sites (e.g. Ciex & National Museum) in the afternoon to the Hanyang (sp?) park of an evening. Turned into one of my favorite trips to Seoul solo. ❤
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Hmmmmm. . . What do you think? Would you try birch antler? 😃 I did!!!! Tasted bitter 😜
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Lovely pond and pagoda inside the Gyeongbokgung Palace in #Seoul – I visit Seoul often to take a breath and recuperate. When I do, Namsan Tower, the Han River, Cheongyeocheon Stream, and Gyeongbokgung Palaxe are top of my list for revisits. I just love walking around – thinking nothing, but feeling calm ❤🇰🇷
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😜Playing with my new phone’s filters – look what I can do! #cheonggyecheonstream #Seoul🇰🇷
Delicious! #Chicken with onions, gluten strips, and garlic in a teriyaki kind of sauce! I love that #China hears garlic and just starts adding whole cloves instead of dicing. My kind of #garlic supporters!
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