Inscribed "Geollyung17nyeon" Amitabha Altar Painting of Tongdosa Temple, Yangsan

This is the Amitabha altar painting preserved at Tongdosa Temple. A taenghwa is a Buddhist painting made on cloth or paper and mounted as a framed picture or hanging scroll. Painted in colour on a silk ground, this taenghwa was made by joining three panels of silk. Centred on the image of Amitabha at the top of the composition, the Eight Great Bodhisattvas and the Four Heavenly Kings are arranged to either side. The bodily forms of the bodhisattvas at the bottom left and right resemble those of the principal image, but are distinguished by slender bodies close to eight head-heights in proportion, and by the lavish rendering of their necklaces and crowns. The clouds at the top of the composition are painted in a dark purplish-brown with white shading, giving a degree of three-dimensional effect. An inscription at the bottom centre of the composition records that the painting was made in the seventeenth year of Qianlong, that is, the twenty-eighth year of King Yeongjo of Joseon (1752). It is regarded as important academic material for the study of the history of Buddhist painting in the Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산