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On Sindoan: Some Scattered Views on Tradition and “The Sublime”
Park Chan-Kyong
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I once had an accidental encounter with Mount Gyeryong and an indescribable shock came over me. The light of the full moon allowed the mountain, covered in snow, to reveal itself in its full glory even in the middle of the night. Unlike other large mountains in South Korea, which one can rarely see fully because they are usually hidden by neighboring peaks, Mount Gyeryong is a so-called protrusion-in-the-field type of mountain whose overall shape is quite visible even from a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2010
Category
Aesthetics, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Sublime, East Asia, Folklore & Tradition