Standing Munwollisa Temple Epitaph Tablet Jo Bodhisattva

This is a stone Bodhisattva statue, 1.7 m high, standing within the precincts of Bogwangsa Temple in Gwacheon. On its head it wears a round bogae — a canopy placed over the head of a Buddhist image like a hat, derived from the parasol carried over nobles in India when they went outdoors — shaped like a fedora hat. The head and body are rendered in shallow line engraving, the lines unsteady in flow and unclear in their carving, with no bodily contour or volume expressed at all. On the short neck, weakly rendered in line engraving, three folds (samdo, three lines carved on the neck of a Buddhist image symbolising wisdom) are shown. It wears a beopui, a monastic robe, covering both shoulders, with a Y-shaped collar at the chest. The left hand holds a lotus bud near the chest, while the right hand appears to support the left. A Bodhisattva image with a pillar-like body and a canopy on its head, as typified by the tenth-century Stone Standing Bodhisattva of Gwanchoksa Temple in Nonsan, represents a style that was popular in Chungcheong-do and the southern part of Gyeonggi-do in the early Goryeo period. The overall flatness of the body, the flat face, the narrow and weak shoulders, and the clumsy drapery lines show the schematic, formulaic expression of a statue style that carried on the early Goryeo tradition of stone Buddha carving into the late Goryeo period. The fedora-shaped canopy is understood to be a later variant of the wonjeongmo — a hat with a round brim and a gently domed crown, originally worn by Yuan-dynasty nobles but adopted by Goryeo officials and monks after the period of Yuan interference — as also seen on the Stone Standing Buddha of Daenong-ri in Anseong.

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Where it is

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Gwacheon, Gyeonggi

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료