Seated Mokpo Dalseongsa Temple Wooden Amitabha Buddha Triad

Dalseongsa Temple stands on the south-eastern slope of Yudalsan Mountain, from where the whole of Mokpo can be seen at a glance. According to Naegojang Jeontong Gakkugi, published by Mokpo City in 1981, and the Mokpo City History (Humanities volume, 1987), the temple was founded on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month of 1913 by the Seon master No Daeyeon. The present-day temple consists of a single Dharma hall enshrining the Amitabha triad, a Myeongbujeon Hall housing an image of Kṣitigarbha and statues of the Ten Kings of the underworld, two buildings of monks' quarters, one Sansingak shrine to the mountain spirit, one bell pavilion, and a three-storey stone pagoda built three years ago. A red-ink manuscript votive inscription for the making of the statues (14 cm × 25 cm) records that the triad was made in 1678, the fourth year of King Sukjong, at Baengnyeonsa Temple on Mandeoksan Mountain. It follows the style seen in the Buddha Triad of Eungjindang Hall at Songgwangsa Temple in Suncheon, the Buddha Triad at Ssanggyesa Temple on Jindo Island, and the Seated Sakyamuni Buddha at Ongnyeonsa Temple in Gangjin — all works produced in Jeollanam-do in the seventeenth century — sharing an almost square face, a small, low, pointed usnisa, and an egg-shaped gyeju ornament. Notable features include the robe covering both shoulders, U-shaped drapery folds, a straight sash with a lotus-shaped tie at the chest, the partly bared right shoulder, and the U-shaped hem of the lower robe. This Amitabha triad, whose absolute date of 1678 is known, is a wooden Buddhist statue from the latter half of the seventeenth century, and, being one of only a few such examples surviving in the province, constitutes extremely valuable material.

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Mokpo, Jeonnam & Gwangju

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Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산