Gudamdang Hall Jeon Hong Portrait

This portrait of Seon master Gudamdang Jeon Hong, made in 1867, shows him seated cross-legged on the floor in a left eight-tenths profile. Against a plain, two-tier background of an upper wall and a mat, he wears a grey jangsam (monk's robe) and a vermilion gasa (outer robe), holding a monk's staff in one hand and a string of prayer beads in the other. To the left of the picture is the inscribed title, reading 'True Portrait of Gudamdang Jeon Hong, Head of the Hwaeom (Avatamsaka) Order of the Seon and Gyo Orders', and on the back is an ink inscription recording that it was made in the tenth month of the jeongmyo year, the seventh year of the Tongzhi reign. The picture measures 79.1 cm wide and 11.7 cm high.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산