Seongwoldang Hall Hong Jin Portrait

This portrait shows Seon master Seongwoldang Hong Jin seated cross-legged on the floor, in an eight-tenths left-profile view. Against a background of a patterned chair-like motif, he sits on a mat holding a monk's staff in his left hand and a string of prayer beads in his right. The inscribed title to the left of the picture, reading 'True Portrait of the Great Seon Master Seongwoldang Hong Jin, National Preceptor of Daegak-deunggye rank and Supervising Great Seon Master of the Seon and Gyo Orders', together with an ink inscription on the back, shows that the portrait was made and enshrined in 1859. The picture measures 78.6 cm wide and 120.5 cm high.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산