Jingwansa Temple Lone Arhat Hall

The Lone Arhat Hall of Jingwansa Temple is a wooden, tile-roofed building of one bay to the front and one to the side, built beside the temple's Myeongbujeon Hall. Although it has recently been repaired owing to deterioration, it retains its original form relatively well. Its platform was built broad using long dressed stones. The foundation stones were cut square and topped with square pillars, and stepping stones were placed before the doors to make the high threshold easy to cross. The doors are four-panel folding doors, and the roof is a gabled roof fitted with wind-break boards. The front eaves are double eaves, combining round rafters with square sub-rafters, while the rear eaves are built as single eaves. Fire-prevention walls are set into both sides of the building. The hall gives an impression of elegance and order, and although small, it was regarded as important enough to be unusually elevated in rank: its signboard reads "Dokseongjeon" (Hall), rather than the more usual "Dokseonggak" (Shrine), for the Dokseong, or Lone Arhat, a figure who is said to have attained enlightenment by himself. Inside, a simply built altar holds a clay statue of the Lone Arhat together with a painting of the Lone Arhat and a painting of the Mountain Spirit. The hall was built in 1907, the first year of the Yunghui era, sponsored by four court ladies and a private couple, and the statue and painting of the Lone Arhat were made in the same year. The Lone Arhat Hall of Jingwansa Temple is valuable material for understanding the structure and style of small buildings of the late Joseon period and for studying the Lone Arhat faith.

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Where it is

Region

Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료