Seated Wooden Amitabha Buddha of Yongamsa Temple, Okcheon

Yongamsa Temple stands on Jangnyeongsan Mountain in Okcheon-eup, Okcheon County, North Chungcheong Province, and is a branch temple of Beopjusa Temple. It was named Yongamsa ("Dragon Rock Temple") after a rock shaped like a dragon, but during the Japanese colonial period the dragon rock was destroyed by Japanese, and only traces of it remain today. The Daeungjeon Hall houses a Buddha statue and five Buddhist paintings (taenghwa). The history of the wooden Buddha statue now enshrined in the Daeungjeon Hall is unknown. When the statue was opened in 1880, a dharani sutra made in "the 8th year of the Shunzhi era, a sinmyo year (1651, the second year of King Hyojong)" was found inside. This revealed that the statue was made in 1651, the second year of King Hyojong of Joseon, and the contents printed in the dharani sutra suggest that it was made at Ojeongsa Temple in Mungyeong, Gyeongsang-do Province, and later moved here.

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Where it is

Region

Okcheon, Chungbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산