East Three-story Stone Pagoda at Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong

The East Three-story Stone Pagoda at Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong (hereafter the East Pagoda) is one of four pagodas remaining at the Seongjusa Temple Site. Seongjusa Temple is thought to have been founded in 847 by Monk Nanghye (800–888, born Muyeom, a monk of the late Silla period), to have continued as an active temple until the seventeenth century, and to have fallen into disuse in the late Joseon period. On the evidence of its style, the East Pagoda is presumed to have been built, together with the other two three-story pagodas at the site, by the same craftsmen in the closing years of Unified Silla. It stands 4.1 m tall in total, with three storeys set on a two-tiered pedestal. Features such as a separate cushioning stone set atop the pedestal and door-leaf carvings, complete with door rings and locks, on the front and back of the first-storey body, all show the typical characteristics of a stone pagoda of the late Unified Silla period. It is of designation value in that it matches, in balanced proportion, graduated diminution and fine artistry, the two other pagodas at the site that have already been designated treasures.

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Where it is

Region

Boryeong, Chungnam

Designation

Treasure · 보물