Songgwangsa Temple Portrait Hall

Songgwangsa Temple on Jogyesan Mountain is the Sangha Treasure Temple, one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korean Buddhism, and a temple of great historical lineage dating to the Three Kingdoms period. Jinyeonggak, standing immediately to the left of Guksajeon Hall, is a building enshrining the portraits of the great monks who studied under the monk Pungam. Pungam was a monk of Songgwangsa Temple, born in Songgwang-myeon in 1688, the fourteenth year of King Sukjong, and who died in 1767, the forty-third year of King Yeongjo. Since almost all the great monks of Songgwangsa Temple in the late Joseon period were disciples of Pungam, its plaque reads "Pungam Yeonggak", Pungam's Portrait Hall. According to temple records, it was built in 1852, the third year of King Cheoljong, on a site to which it had been moved from what is now the location of Doseongdang Hall. It measures three bays across the front and two bays in depth, and is a simple building with a gable roof whose sides form the shape of the character "人". Songgwangsa Temple's Portrait Hall is a modestly sized building without decorative colour painting, and it is important as a portrait hall housing portraits from the mid-nineteenth century.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산