a snowy temple lost in time...such a wistful setting for today's post, @slowwalker.

How lovely the buildings look dusted with snow and so lonely and far away.

Temples are usually built on heights and the way to approach them often difficult to navigate - they are meant to be remote and inaccessible and are designed to attract only true seekers.

The Buddha statue, so weathered by the elements as to be almost indistinguishable from rock, is a symbol of the millennium that have passed while this remote sanctuary slept.

The loneliness you felt reminds me of Robert Frost's poem, Desert Places:

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Have a good day, @slowwalker