Sinheungsa Temple Daeungjeon Hall

Sinheungsa Temple is a subordinate temple of Seonunsa Temple, the head temple of the 24th diocese of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. According to one account, it was founded in 529, the seventh year of King Seong of Baekje, by the monk State Preceptor Jingam, Hyeso (慧昭, 774–850), who is said to have built Sinheungsa for spreading the Buddhist teaching and Jungnimam Hermitage for meditation practice. According to the 1730 manuscript Unsuji (雲水誌), Sinheungsa "lies at the foot of Mount Jasan (獅子山), and was first founded in 1595 (the Eulmi year of the Wanli reign) on a site chosen by the Silla State Preceptor Jingam." However, according to the roof-ridge inscription of Sinheungsa's Daeungjeon Hall and the writing on the pedestal of the seated Buddha statue, it appears to have been founded in 1712, the thirty-eighth year of King Sukjong. At that time, in 1730, Sinheungsa is said to have included a main Dharma hall, a Siwangjeon Hall (Hall of the Ten Kings), a Nahanjeon Hall, a main gate, Jonseondang Hall, Sungdang Hall, the east hall's Duwoldang Hall, Jeokjoam Hermitage, and Wonjeogam Hermitage. The Daeungjeon Hall of Sinheungsa, designated a Tangible Cultural Heritage of Jeollabuk-do Special Self-Governing Province, has three bays across the front and three bays to the side, and a gable roof (matbae roof). The platform is built of natural stones, and only the central columns are thick entasis columns (columns with a swelling profile), while the corner columns are much larger than the other columns. Because the height of the columns is low relative to the scale of the floor plan, the roof appears relatively large. The central bay has a four-panel sliding comb-pattern door, while the bays on either side have three-panel sliding comb-pattern doors. The bracket sets (gongpo) that support the eaves atop the columns are arranged both above the columns and between them, in the Baekje-style juganpo (intercolumnar bracket) arrangement, making this a dapo-style structure (multiple-bracket style). The central bay has two sets of brackets, while the bays on either side each have one.

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Where it is

Region

Imsil, Jeonbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산