Bulgapsa Temple Manseru Pavilion

The exact date of Bulgapsa Temple's founding is not known, but tradition holds it was built either by Marananta, the monk who first brought Buddhism to Korea, or by National Preceptor Gakjin. Manseru is a lecture hall used for teaching. Buildings of this kind are often gate towers (nu) — two-storey structures passed beneath on entering a temple's central precinct — and here Manseru, like Bojeru Pavilion at Hwaeomsa Temple, forms a low intermediate storey that turns around the corner of the building. In early times a temple's lecture hall stood behind the Daeungjeon Hall, but from the Goryeo period onward it came to be placed in the courtyard in front of the Daeungjeon Hall, and the same is true at Bulgapsa Temple. The building measures five bays across the front and four bays along the side, and its roof is a gabled roof that, seen from the side, forms the shape of the character 人. The building's construction shows a later style that departs from standard conventions.

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Where it is

Region

Yeonggwang, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료