Dongpyeon Three-story Stone Pagoda of Wonhyoam Hermitage

This is a three-story stone pagoda standing at the entrance to Wonhyoam Hermitage. A legend is passed down that the hermitage was founded by the Great Master Wonhyo, who stayed there and repelled Japanese soldiers; to the west stands a second three-story stone pagoda (also a Busan City tangible cultural heritage). It is presumed that a three-story body was originally raised on a two-tier platform and topped with a finial, but today only the three-story body rests on a base stone. Pillar shapes are carved on the body stones, though the second- and third-storey stones appear, from the quality of the stone and their proportions, to be later restorations. The thick roof stones have slightly upturned corners at all four ends, lending a sense of curved beauty, and four-tiered supports on their undersides. Judging by the pagoda's overall style, it is presumed to have been built between the late Unified Silla and early Goryeo periods. This pagoda has been re-erected on its original site, and offers valuable evidence for the location of Wonhyoam's main hall and the period of the hermitage's founding.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산