Daeungjeon Hall of Unheungsa Temple, Goseong

Unheungsa Temple, on the slopes of Waryongsan Mountain, is said to have been first built by the monk Uisang in 676, the 16th year of King Munmu of Unified Silla. Its subsequent history is not recorded, but it is said that during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592) Master Samyeong led monk soldiers here to fight the Japanese forces, and the Daeungjeon Hall was burned down at that time. It was rebuilt in 1731, the seventh year of King Yeongjo, and has survived to the present day. The Daeungjeon Hall of Unheungsa Temple measures five bays across the front and three bays deep, and is a simple gabled-roof building, its roofline shaped like the character 人 (person) when seen from the side. The bracket sets that support and decorate the roof form an elaborate dapo-style system, with bracket clusters placed not only atop the columns but also between them. Inside the hall are kept a gwaebul — a huge Buddhist painting hung outdoors for great ceremonies (a Gyeongsangnam-do Tangible Cultural Heritage) — and woodblocks for sutra printing made in the late Joseon period (also a Gyeongsangnam-do Tangible Cultural Heritage), and the carvings on the altar are especially elaborate.

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Region

Goseong, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산