among the silent temples

Tongdosa is the big, famous temple in Yangsan.

Peter and I walked there from Fantasia, on a path that took us along a creek surrounded by big, still pine trees. Someone was painting them.


These fellows were not amused.


There are rafter dragons.


And plants growing from the roof


At six, everyone gathered in one part of the temple complex


to watch this monk ring the giant bell.


Outside the walls, there was a skinny bridge


over a stream.