Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 30 *c 31. Exterior and interior of Poosuksa ijff^i^ templel. North Kyungsan({ Provincel|sfiS4biS)> the oldest wooden building in Chosen, having been erected aboutboo years ago. It is about lOO miles north of Taiku ( >c6|;). — 19 — Koryu (^^):—iM-om the very- earliest clays of the kingflom (018) thekings of Koryu (if^iM) were grCcit devotees of Hiuldhisni, atid not ,i fewremains of the Buddhist temples then built or repaired are still (i^5^) shown on the ])reeeding jjage is one, and is the only goodspecimen now existing of the wooden buildi

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Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . 30 *c 31. Exterior and interior of Poosuksa ijff^i^ templel. North Kyungsan({ Provincel|sfiS4biS)> the oldest wooden building in Chosen, having been erected aboutboo years ago. It is about lOO miles north of Taiku ( >c6|;). — 19 — Koryu (^^):—iM-om the very- earliest clays of the kingflom (018) thekings of Koryu (if^iM) were grCcit devotees of Hiuldhisni, atid not ,i fewremains of the Buddhist temples then built or repaired are still (i^5^) shown on the ])reeeding jjage is one, and is the only goodspecimen now existing of the wooden buildings of those days. The Koryu d^H) Kingdom, early weakened by a corrupt court and thegeneral efleminacy of its people, often fell a victim to the stouter northernraces, one of which establisherl for itself a ])owerful kingdom called Chitan (|^:f5Khitai) in 1)07 and, eoncjuering the Kingdom of Iohai (Itftjf!):), extended its territo-ries to the northern borders of Koryu (i^^)- This strong neighbour demandedof Korju (fffji^)

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