#arhat

There was an another room at the End of the Exhibition Hall. The room looked very special, it seemed that the curators of this museum’d like to combine arhats with music. The center of the room was displayed

As I told before, there were various kinds of arhats. In this post, I’d like to show you arhats putting on a cap to escape from the cold weather. As I wrote in previous post, Winter weather in Korea was

It seemed that the mason who carved those sculptures tried to show all kinds of feelings in Human. In my guess, the mason must’ve been an one man. All of these hundreds of stone arhats looked slightly

One thing great in this exhibition was the abundance of expression of faces. The material was the granite that was very hard for carving. So it was impossible to carve the sculptures elaborately like as

When Buddha attained the real truth, there were Buddha’s disciples. In Buddhism they were called as the Arhats. In this perspective, the 12 Apostles in Christianity were very similar to the Arhats in Buddhism.