Daeheungsa Temple Yonghwadang Hall

Halfway up Duryunsan Mountain stands Daeheungsa Temple, a venerable temple said to have been founded by the monk Ado in 544, the fifth year of King Jinheung of Silla. Yonghwadang Hall is said to have been rebuilt in 1813, the thirteenth year of King Sunjo of Joseon, to serve as a meditation hall and lecture hall where monks studying the Buddhist scriptures resided. Yonghwadang Hall stands to the west of Cheonbuljeon Hall and measures eight kan (a traditional unit for the space between two pillars) across the front and three kan along the side. The right-hand section has a simple gable roof, its profile resembling the Chinese character 人 (person), while the left-hand section has an ornate hipped-and-gabled roof shaped like the character 八 (eight). Inside, three heated ondol rooms, a kitchen, a large meditation hall and two smaller rooms are arranged in sequence. Wide eaves-side platforms and narrow wooden verandas run along the front and back of the meditation hall, and on the kitchen side there is a fairly spacious loft, reached by a stairway set to one side of the kitchen. The bracket sets supporting the roof eaves while also serving as decoration are in the jusimpo style, found only above the pillars, though some pillar tops show a degenerate form carved with lotus flowers.

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Where it is

Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산