Huyen Khong Cave
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 7 Jan 2018 23:47
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Huyen Khong
Cave
  More than underwhelmed at scrambling
through the last cave to take pictures of a building site, our guide promised us
something special in the Huyen Khong Cave. I did like the entrance arch and the lantern at the gateway.
  In to the dark, we looked up at the
Goddess of
Mercy, (Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, Guanyinor or sometimes simply Lady
Buddha), if you looked up quickly she could so easily be the Virgin Mary. Flash
on really showed up the various colours of the marble
she is hewn from.
  Around the next corner we stood and looked down. Wow, a couple of steep steps down
and we could see Buddha high on the opposite
wall.
   Guardians
on the way down the steps.
  Shrines in
the far left and far right corners.
 Middle far wall, a small shrine.
 Above, Buddha in the highest place of honour.
   To our right a little temple............
   ..........the three altars inside.
  Above the little temple a man’s face in the rock....
  High above us natural light through the ceiling. Just a few kilometres
from here was the Da Nang American Airbase. The Vietcong used this cave as a
hospital and would have easily heard the air assaults from here. All the shrines
were built around 1825 but we saw a sandstone
artifact dating from the late ninth century showing worship has happened
in the cave for a very long time.
      One final look at
the cave walls, up the steps,Mercy and off down the
mountain.
 ALL IN ALL TRULY
IMPRESSIVE
VERY SPECTACULAR, VERY
BEAUTIFUL |