Master Jeogyeon Stupa, Hapcheon

This is an octagonal stupa of the so-called 'octagonal round-hall' type common to Buddhist monks' funerary stupas. Its body and finial have been lost, so that only the base and roof stone now remain. The ground stone is square in plan. On the lower stone of the base, each face is carved with an ansang, a decorative eye-shaped panel, containing a relief of a lion, with a cloud-and-dragon design above. The upper stone of the base is carved with a double band of upturned lotus petals to support the missing body of the stupa. The middle stone of the base bears patterns in low relief on each face, but these are so worn that their original form can no longer be made out. The roof stone's eaves curve up slightly at the corners, giving the whole a light, buoyant air. According to the inscription on the Stele for State Preceptor Jeogyeon's Jagwang Stupa, preserved only as a rubbing in the library of Seoul National University, Master Jeogyeon (932-1014) died at the age of eighty-three in the sixth month of 1014, the fifth year of King Hyeonjong of Goryeo, and was buried on the western peak of Yeongamsa Temple. Since the spot where this stupa now stands corresponds to that western peak, it is presumed that the stupa belongs to Master Jeogyeon.

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Where it is

Region

Hapcheon, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산