Haenam Daeheungsa Temple Bungmireugam Hermitage Dong Three-story Stone Pagoda

This pagoda stands at Bungmireugam Hermitage, below the summit of Duryunsan Mountain. Standing 3.6 m tall, it uses as its base stone a natural rock artificially carved into the shape of a palm. The third-storey roof stone had been missing, but the pagoda was restored to its original form in 1995, together with the repair of the hermitage's monks' quarters. The form of each part of this pagoda closely resembles that of the 'Three-story Stone Pagoda of Bungmireugam Hermitage' (Treasure No. 301), suggesting the two were built in the same period; the three gilt-bronze Buddha statues now on display at the Seongbo Museum of Daeheungsa Temple (a museum of Buddhist treasures) were discovered inside this very pagoda in 1970. Overall the pagoda follows the typical form of a Unified Silla three-storey stone pagoda, but the way its parts are assembled and its simplified style show features of a transition toward Goryeo-period stone pagodas. The pagoda follows the general Silla-period form, with three storeys of roof stones set on a double-tiered base. According to geomantic tradition, the area centred on Bungmireugam Hermitage takes the shape of a crab in the sea, and it is said that the stone pagoda was erected where the crab's left and right forelegs would fall, to suppress the energy of the land and keep the crab from moving.

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Region

Haenam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료