img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304695200098460034″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/SZ4QLdOWoYI/AAAAAAAAAhs/ffL52t4LUic/s320/P1040058.JPG” border=”0″ /br /div align=”center”span style=”font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;”Woljeongsa Temple/span /divdiv align=”left”Thursday was a day off, and a day to venture outside of the racing world to see some Korean culture. A few buses and a taxi later, Lanny, Tracy and I arrived at the Woljeongsa Temple.br /One of the most holy Buddhist sites in Korea, the Temple has a 1300 year history. In an hour, we saw merely a small part of this complex which consists of 60 temples, hermitages and a museum, all nestled in the Odea National Park. The main historical artifacts of this Temple are the seated Medicine Buddha, who appears to be giving an offering to the 9 story stone pagoda./divdiv align=”left”/divimg id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304695194329092306″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/SZ4QLHu1ENI/AAAAAAAAAhk/9tmaCQRr65k/s320/P1040051.JPG” border=”0″ /img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304695181234825938″ style=”DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center” alt=”” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k1DHbqzFvCE/SZ4QKW86atI/AAAAAAAAAhc/29zcIq16aTc/s320/P1040036.JPG” border=”0″ / It was cool and quite here, and in the background you could hear the rhythmic sounds of a meditation session in the Main Hall. Various other Halls also had shoes lined out the side, and their doors closed. To have only ever read about the Buddhist religion and growing up in a Catholic school, to feel, see, hear and touch the real thing was quite special.br /br /
