Continuing on from this entry, the next site one encounters on Dobongsan after Daewonsa is the complex at Shinwonsa. As with all of the other temples that I've written about from this particular trip, Shinwonsa shares its name with a more popular temple to the south, this one located in Chungcheongnam-do. In Hanja the temple's name is 新元寺, which can be interpreted in a couple of ways; the most likely to me is New Head Temple but feel free to correct me if a better translation is available.

Oddly enough, while I was looking up information on the temple I came across this site (Korean Temple Online), which includes all of my Shinwonsa photos from Flickr. There's no text to go with them, so I have no idea why those particular images were chosen. Anyway, photos from the snowy 선날 holiday:

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