Flagpole Supports in Banjuk-dong, Gongju

The banner raised at a temple's entrance to show the virtues of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas when it holds prayers or a Dharma assembly is called a dang; the pole that carries it is the danggan, and the two stone posts that hold the pole on either side are the danggan jiju. These supports at the old site of Daetongsa have no carving on their facing inner sides, but their outer faces carry a thick raised band along the edges. The tops are rounded off from inside to out, and two square holes are cut on the inside, above and below, to fix the pole. Bombing in the Korean War badly damaged the base stone and the lower part of one post, but the whole is simple and spare in form. It might be thought Baekje like the other objects in the area, but the carving of the eye-shaped panels on the base stone suggests it was made in Unified Silla.

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Gongju, Chungnam

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Treasure · 보물