Multi-story Stone Pagoda of Beopwasa Temple, Changnyeong

This is a multi-storey stone pagoda of the Goryeo period standing within the grounds of Beopwaam Hermitage. It takes the form of a "blue stone pagoda" or "tile pagoda", a style that was popular from the end of Unified Silla into the early Goryeo period. It is said to have originally stood at a hermitage belonging to Borimsa Temple on Yeongchwisan Mountain, and to have later been moved to its present site at Beopwaam Hermitage. The pagoda has the same distinctive form as the multi-storey stone pagoda at Wondangam Hermitage of Haeinsa Temple: the base is of granite, while the body of the pagoda is made of slate, the type of stone used for ink-stones. The base, carved with a lotus-flower design, resembles a Buddhist altar in form. Of the pagoda body, only one body stone and seven roof stones now survive. Lines symbolising pillars are carved at each corner of the body stone, and the thin roof stones each carry three-tiered supports on their undersides. The finial that once stood at the top has been entirely lost, and a different piece of natural stone now stands in place of the noban, the base that would have supported the finial. Although much of the stonework has been lost, the pagoda is thought to have originally had nine storeys, and the use of slate, an unusual material for this purpose, suggests that it was built before the middle of the Goryeo period.

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Changnyeong, Gyeongnam

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산