Buddha's birthday was celebrated on May 28th 2012. The Lotus Lantern Festival held in its wake ran from May 18th to 20th. There were many free activities like making lotus lanterns, sampling Temple food, trying on hanboks (Korean traditional costume) and many more during that time. There was also a spectacular lantern parade bringing in floats of huge lanterns of different styles, gorgeous traditional Korean dancers and a huge array of people from different parts of the world carrying the lanterns. This was the when we visited two of the most famous Buddhist temples in Seoul. Bonguensa Temple and Jogyesa Temple.
Big Statue of Buddha in Bonguensa Temple
Big collection- almost 6000 statues of Buddha in Bonguensa Temple
Big Flower lantern at the Bonguensa Temple
Big collection of Lotus lanterns at the Bonguensa Temple
Big Sleeping Buddha lantern during the lantern parade
Big Dragon lantern at the Lantern parade
Big statues of Buddha at the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul.
Colorful array of lanterns during the festival
One of the free activities during the festival was to try and hit the drums to a specific beat.
She was very good at the playing the Korean (big) drum.
Our next trip was to the Seoul Tower, one of the top tourist attractions in Seoul.
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Beautiful Big set of pictures of Big subjects!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos, I enjoyed looking at them.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that the USA was the country where everything is bigger, but I am starting to doubt their claim after seeing these wonderfull pictures.
ReplyDeletelovely pics for the theme.
ReplyDeleteI would love to beat that drum. :)
ReplyDeleteBuddha bless you!
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A great post for MYM!
ReplyDeleteHave a nice day!
Festivals are fun!
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Lea
Lea's Menagerie
What an interesting post!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful selection of images.
ReplyDeleteWow these are so lovely. I saw the thousand buddhas in China but it seems like limited compared to these photos. And your photos are so vivid too, beautiful. I also love best that sleeping buddha capture.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Andrea :)
DeleteBeautiful displays!
ReplyDeleteGolden Memories from Korea, hope you'd come and see my MYM!
Incredible sights. Thanks for these.
ReplyDeleteThank-you for sharing the festival photos. Those huge lanterns are quite remarkable.
ReplyDeleteWonderful pics! Have a fabulous week.
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Liz @ YACB
very interesting and beautiful pictures ! thanks !
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable read, and the photos are a delight.
ReplyDeleteI hope one day I am able to visit South Korea.
Beautiful and very interesting..
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Wonderful shots of place.
ReplyDeleteNice photos, Devi. Such a small country, S Korea, does everything in
ReplyDeletea beautiful way. You give the details clearly, keep it up.
beautiful devi...where's your lantern?
ReplyDeleteSharmila
So Beautiful... Nice Clicks... Think i should have a fmly visit b4 u move from there...
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