Beomeosa Temple Amitabha Geungnak Assembly Painting

This is a painting preserved at Beomeosa Temple depicting Amitabha Buddha preaching in the Pure Land, an Amitabha Geungnak Assembly Painting. It is executed on a silk ground coated overall in red, with the imagery drawn over this in white line work. The composition is centred on the seated figure of Amitabha Buddha, around whom are arranged bodhisattvas, the Four Heavenly Kings and arhats. The flesh areas of the Amitabha figure are painted in yellow with the outlines rendered in fine black ink lines, while the folds of the robes are shown in white line work. The flesh areas of the bodhisattvas at the lower left and right of the composition are rendered in the same way as the principal Amitabha image, and they hold lotus-bud branches as attributes. The flesh areas of the Four Heavenly Kings, Ananda and Kasyapa are painted white with shading in pale red. The heavenly king to the left of the Amitabha image holds, as an attribute, a long, slender sword with a handle. According to an inscription at the centre of the lower part of the painting, this work was made in the tenth year of Hamhpung (Xianfeng), that is, in 1860, the eleventh year of King Cheoljong of Joseon. Judging from the condition of the work, its iconography and its painting style, the Beomeosa Temple Amitabha Geungnak Assembly Painting is valued as important material for research into the Buddhist art of the late Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Geumjeong-gu, Busan

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료