Nectar Ritual Painting of Jijangsa Temple

This painting, preserved in the Daeungjeon Hall of Jijangsa Temple, gives visual form to the Buddhist sutra known as the Ullambana Sutra. It is painted in colour on silk measuring 196.5 cm in width and 150.3 cm in height, the composition divided into three tiers. The upper section depicts Amitabha and his retinue coming from the Western Paradise to welcome the beings of hell; the middle section shows the seongban rite (a ceremony from the Ullambana Sutra in which offerings of white rice are made to monks and to the buddhas of the ten directions on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, accompanied by vows) together with the hungry ghosts gathered around it; and the lower section depicts hell and the ordinary world, where beings groan in torment. The solemn yet serene faces of the Seven Buddhas, shown in three-quarter view, together with the depiction of the monks performing the seongban rite and the rendering of landscape, all display the style of the early 19th century, while the treatment of the leaf outlines and the shading of the landscape show the Buddhist painting style of the late 19th century.

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Where it is

Region

Dongjak-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산