Manbulsa

The weather has just been fantastic the past couple of weeks creating a wonderful opportunity to explore outside. This weekend we went to Manbulsa, a temple. And yes, most of the temples just kind of run together after a while but this one is a little different. There are supposed to be 10,000 small buddhas in the main temple, although I wouldn't be surprised if there were more! According to what I read, people will buy these and have a name engraved. These buddhas will then bring happiness and good luck to that person. The inside and outside of the temple is covered with these tiny statues plus other sizes, and with the lights it has a glowing effect. Behind each small light you see on the wall is a tiny buddha.

They also have a bone enshrined, called a sarira, which is supposed to one of buddha's. You can actually see it inside its' little dome! There was too much light shining on it to get a better picture than this.

This is also said to be the only temple with stone coffins in its premises. The body is cremated and then placed inside these domes. The website called them pagodas.

We walked on all the scenic and buddha lined paths to the different things they had.


Avaloketeshvara hall. Maitreya statue flanked by 'lucky bags'. If I understand the (bad) translation correctly, one is for merit, the other for virtuos deeds. If you pray facing one of the bags you can "accumulate" the aforementioned virtues.


The Great Lantern Tower,a small model of one in India.


Nirvana buddha


33 meters buddha



I'm pretty sure they were doing some remodeling because there were some things on the website we didn't see or that were in a different place. There was also a lot of digging going on while we were there.