Reliquaries from the Octagonal Nine-story Stone Pagoda of Woljeongsa Temple

This collection of relics was discovered inside the Octagonal Nine-story Stone Pagoda of Woljeongsa Temple (a national treasure) in 1970, when the pagoda, which had begun to lean, was dismantled and restored. It comprises twelve items of nine different types. As they were mostly made around the tenth to eleventh centuries, they are presumed to have been deposited together when the stone pagoda was built. The assemblage includes a standing gilt-silver Buddha and an outer bronze reliquary case, together with an inner silver case, a gourd-shaped crystal reliquary bottle, a gilt-bronze square incense case, a bronze mirror, a scroll of a sutra revered as a whole-body relic of the Buddha, a pouch for an incense case, and a silk wrapping cloth. This collection of relics found inside the Octagonal Nine-story Stone Pagoda of Woljeongsa Temple is considered to hold an important place in research into the state of metalcraft and the changes in Buddhist thought in the early Goryeo period.

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Region

Pyeongchang, Gangwon

Designation

Treasure · 보물