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Photograph of a wood carving of the angry head and face of a temple guardian at entrance to a Buddhist temple Tosan-sa in Ui-dong, Seoul, Korea

Photograph of a wood carving of the angry head and face of a temple guardian at entrance to a Buddhist temple Tosan-sa in Ui-dong, Seoul, Korea
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Photograph of a wood carving of the angry head and face of a temple guardian at entrance to a Buddhist temple Tosan-sa in Ui-dong, Seoul, Korea. Tosan-sa is also called Dosan-sa. The face expresses a wrathful deity with supernatural power through colorful figurative sculpture art. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken May 5, 1987.

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Ui-dong, Seoul, Korea, South Kor

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Asia, Buddhist temple, Dosan-sa, Korea, Korean, Nathan Benn, ROK, Seoul, South Korea, Tosan-sa, Ui-dong, anger, art, carving, deity, face, figurative, guard, guardian, head, photograph, power, sculpture, stock photo, stock photography, supernatural, temple, wood, wood carving, wrath, wrathful

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