the small Hermitages around Cheoneun-sa:
Dogye-am  and  Samil-am
지리산 노고단  도계암 & 삼일암
and Jukrim-jeongsa  죽림정사
in the Southwestern Sector of Jiri-san
At the foot of Nogo-dan Peak, just a little up the paved highway from Cheoneun-sa,
Dogye-am Hermitage boasts charming traditional architecture -- but unusual for a
Buddhist worship-complex, because instead of the usual red, green, yellow & blue
earth-tones it is in white-with-bare-wood, like a Neo-Confucian residence...
The modern San-shin painting is really quite ordinary, however.
The Hall for four folk-spirits in the back is labeled by its signboard
as a "Chilseong-gak" -- a throwback to 18th-Century traditions,
quite rare to see in a newly-built one.  The ordinary Dok-seong --->
When I visited in 2001, however, a new modern-style Samseong-gak [Three Saints Shrine] had been
built, and these excellent paintings were displayed.  Above is the San-shin with two superb dongja.
The Chil-seong painting with well-appointed altar, a mysterious Buddha-painting,
and an unusually symmetrical Yong-wang painting on the side-wall.
In the Shinjung-taenghwa of Dogye-am, San-shin
is holding a bullocho right next to Dongjin-bosal
-- whose winged-helmet is oddly tilted.
Just a bit further up from Cheoneun-sa, the small Samil-am
[Three-One Hermitage, possibly a reference to Korea's Mach First
1919 Independence Movement, but more likely a religious "Trinity is
really One" reference] displays a standing natural stone
inscribed Sanwang-daeshin-euibiseok [Monument of
Mountain-King (is a ) Great Spirit], similar to the old rock at
Cheoneun-sa,  looking to be quite old (by its fungus-patina)
but nobody really knows...   In the Shinjung-taenghwa
(right), San-shin is up-front clutching a ginseng root.
In the recent San-shin painting, the expensively-clothed King
holds a large bullocho sprig;  his dongja-girl offers a flower
while gazing at a white crane resting on a pine-bough.
In the matching Dok-seong painting, the also-finely-clad saint holds a smaller bullocho
sprig;  his two dongja-boys are playing with a turtle -- I've never seen that before!
The more-ordinary gold-lines-&-
painted-faces Surta-motif Chil-seong
painting features the Bukseong-shin
[North Star Spirit of Longevity] and a rare
Sanshin-looking Okhwang-sangje
[Jade Emperor of Heaven] triad in clouds
in lower-front-center (compare with the
classic one at Hwaeom-sa).
The Shinjung-taenghwa of Jukrim-jeongsa features a hard-to-
find San-shin holding yet another bullocho sprig (long-stemmed),
and a rare display of the Sacheonwang [Four Heavenly Kings].
Jukrim-jeong-sa is a new small temple over to the west of Cheoneun-sa (just across National
Highway 19), with the above Samseong-gak sporting the below excellent dancheong paintings.