Tongdosa Temple Baengnyeonam Hermitage Shakyamuni Altar Painting, Yangsan

This is a Shakyamuni altar painting preserved at Tongdosa Temple. A taenghwa is a Buddhist painting made by painting on cloth or paper and mounting it as a framed picture or hanging scroll. Painted in colour on a silk ground, this painting renders its imagery in yellow outline against a vermilion ground, though the yellow outlines have now darkened and discoloured. At the upper centre of the composition is the seated image of Shakyamuni Buddha as the principal icon; at the very bottom, attendant bodhisattvas and the Four Heavenly Kings are arranged to either side. Immediately above them are the Eight Great Bodhisattvas, four to each side, and at the very top are the Sixteen Arhats and guardian deities, likewise arranged to either side. Inscriptions in the lower section of the painting, on both the left and right, record that it was made in 'Dongchi year 2, gyegwan', that is, 1863, the 14th year of King Cheoljong of Joseon. It is an important scholarly resource for the study of the history of Buddhist painting in the Joseon period.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료