Three-story Stone Pagoda of Beomeosa Temple, Busan

Located in front of Daeungjeon Hall of Beomeosa Temple, this stone pagoda has a three-story body raised on a two-tiered platform. The distinctive feature of this pagoda lies in its platform, which serves as the pagoda's base: rather than carving pillar shapes on the sides of the upper and lower tiers, large ansang (arch-shaped niche carvings) were carved instead. The body of the pagoda narrows sharply from the second story upward compared with the first-story body stone. The flat, thin roof stones have horizontal eaves, and their undersides carry four-tiered cornice supports, showing the style of the late Unified Silla period. At the top, only the boju (a lotus-bud-shaped ornament) remains on the square capstone that once supported the finial; the rest has been lost. The pagoda was erected during the reign of King Heungdeok of Unified Silla (r. 826–836). During major repairs in the Japanese colonial period a stone was added to the base of the platform, giving the platform an overly large and tall appearance. The railing around its base is also said to have been made at that time.

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Geumjeong-gu, Busan

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