Daeheungsa Temple Avalokitesvara Painting

These are paintings of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva kept in the Master Seosan Memorial Hall at Daeheungsa Temple. Two paintings survive, the Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara and the Cundi Avalokitesvara, said to have been painted by Master Choui. The Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara shows the bodhisattva standing on an octagonal lotus pedestal, with a flame-shaped halo behind. The face and head, drawn in fine detail with a small brush, are rendered with great skill yet in a somewhat formulaic manner. The bodhisattva has forty-three arms in all; thirty-seven of the hands hold various objects, and an eye is painted at the centre of each palm. The Cundi Avalokitesvara is painted in similar brushwork and colouring to the picture above, but whereas the Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara stands, this bodhisattva is seated on a great lotus flower rising out of the water. Below, two figures in official robes, one in white and one in red, stand facing each other holding the lotus stem. Cundi Avalokitesvara has three eyes and eighteen arms; aside from the two hands held before the chest in the mudra of preaching the Dharma and the two hands joined above the knees in the mudra of meditation, each of the remaining fourteen hands holds a different object. Both paintings were originally kept at Pyochungsa Temple; it is said that Master Choui, who devoted great effort to rebuilding Pyochungsa Temple, painted them in the wish that the temple would endure and be preserved for a long time.

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Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산