Saryongsangeumjeongamjeseok Buddhist Painting

A taenghwa is a painting done on cloth or paper and mounted as a hanging scroll or in a frame for display. This taenghwa was enshrined at Geumjeongam Hermitage on Saryongsan Mountain in 1764, the 40th year of King Yeongjo's reign in Joseon, and is now preserved at Pyochungsa Temple. The overall painting measures 65 cm in width and 70 cm in height, with the painted field itself measuring 54 cm by 55 cm - an unusually small and distinctive taenghwa in which Jeseok (Indra), rather than Buddha, occupies the central position. Jeseok is shown seated on a chair, holding in both hands a lotus flower just beginning to bloom. In front of him stand the Heavenly Prince of the Sun Palace and the Heavenly Prince of the Moon Palace, both wearing crowns bearing sun-and-moon emblems, flanked on either side by celestial beings in tall crowns who gaze outward. Behind the celestial beings are boy and girl attendants playing musical instruments, holding a flute, a pipa (lute) and others. It is painted in colour on a silk ground, with wooden rollers at top and bottom and a ring attached at the top, in the traditional style.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산