Josanggyeong

This copy of the Josanggyeong is dated 1824, the twenty-fourth year of King Sunjo's reign of Joseon, and is designated a Gyeonggi-do tangible heritage. The Josanggyeong is a Buddhist ritual manual that gathers together and systematises the rites and procedures, scattered across various sutras, for making images of buddhas and bodhisattvas; it is also commonly known as the Josanggong-deokgyeong. Before this text appeared, every temple made Buddha images and carried out the accompanying rites according to its own judgement, with no consistency between them, but once the text appeared, the rites came to be performed according to a fixed set of rules. This ritual text was first carved and printed in 1575 at Yongcheonsa Temple in Damyang, Jeolla Province, and was subsequently reprinted at Nonggasa Temple in Hongyang, Jeolla Province (1697), at Hwajangsa Temple (1720), at Gimyongsa Temple in Sangju, Gyeongsang Province (1746), and at Yujeomsa Temple in Goseong, Gangwon Province (1824). This copy, owned by the Korean Buddhist Chonghwa Order, corresponds to the edition printed at Yujeomsa Temple in 1824. At the back of the book, a handwritten supplement related to the "Jinjeonjip" (a collection of dharani, or Buddhist mantras) has been added that is not found in the printed edition, making this a valuable resource for the study of Buddhist history.

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Where it is

Region

Namyangju, Gyeonggi

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산