Shaman Village and Kuksadang
KoreaMosaic Home Photos Home		Photos by Holstein Nikon D200, 2007
Read more about Kuksadang here.
Looking down on Kuksadang, we can also see one of the many shaman-Buddhist temples in this shaman village, and part of downtown Seoul.
The gate to a small village temple. The door shows the indigenous beliefs that Koreans held long before Buddhism arrived: the painting is of the crater at the peak of Mount Baekdu (in North Korea), where the father of Dan-gun, Korea's first king, descended from Heaven in B.C. 2333. Read more here.
One of the shaman-Buddhist temples in Kuksadang Ville.
Downtown Seoul, from the peak of Mount Inwang.
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