Three-story Stone Pagoda at Biroam Hermitage of Donghwasa Temple, Daegu

This three-story stone pagoda stands in the front courtyard of Daejeokgwangjeon Hall at Biroam Hermitage, which sits on the hill west of Donghwasa Temple. It consists of a three-storey body set upon a two-tiered platform. On each of the four faces of every tier of the platform, pillar-shaped carvings are set at the corners and in the centre. The body stones and roof stones of the pagoda's storeys are each made of a single stone, and the body stones bear carvings imitating pillars at each corner. The underside of each roof stone has four-tiered eave supports, and the eaves extend gracefully outward before curving up slightly at the four corners. At the top, the finial consists, in order, of a noban (a flat, dish-shaped base for the finial), a bokbal (an ornament shaped like an overturned bowl) and a boju (an ornament shaped like a lotus bud). With its several supporting mouldings above each platform tier and the modest degree to which the roof-stone corners curve upward, this is a neat and handsome work following the stone pagoda style of the late Unified Silla period. In 1966 part of the reliquary holding the Buddha's sarira relics was stolen, but the surviving stone reliquary bears an inscription recording that the pagoda was erected in the third year of King Gyeongmun of Unified Silla (863) to pray for the repose of King Minae, making it an important historical source.

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Where it is

Region

Dong-gu, Daegu

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Treasure · 보물