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Brian Barry, a Buddhist artist, about cairns: "I suppose that the term 'cairns' does apply to those little pagodas, but that's what they are, pagodas. The Lotus Sutra states that even those who made little pagodas out of stone will be rewarded with eventual enlightenment, and this took hold in folklore as guarantee [of] entrance to paradise. So now you know why there are so many minipagodas, especially around temples!"
 
 
 
 
 
At Beopju Temple, North Chungcheong Province. (2006)
 
 
 
 
 
At Beopju Temple, North Chungcheong Province. (2006)
 
 
 
 
 
At Beopju Temple, North Chungcheong Province. (2006)
 
 
 
 
 
At Songgwang Temple, South Cholla Province. (2006)
 
 
 
 
 
On a slope of the Bukhan Mountain range. (2006)
 
 
 
 
 
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Check out this nice blog to see the cairns at Horse Ears Mountain Tap Temple (Ma-i-san Tapsa). (This photo is not by Holstein.)
 
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