Andong Mounsa Temple Ksitigarbha Buddhist Painting ,jeseok Buddhist Painting

These paintings are preserved in the Baekhwajeon Hall of Mounsa Temple in Andong: a Ksitigarbha Buddhist painting (jijang taenghwa) and a Jeseok Buddhist painting, both painted in colour on silk. A taenghwa is a Buddhist painting executed on cloth or paper and mounted as a framed panel or hanging scroll. Nothing is recorded of the founding date or other history of Mounsa Temple, but the temple's renovation record states that it was founded by the monk Uisang, and that the Baekhwajeon Hall was restored in the twenty-second year of the Daoguang era (1842). The Ksitigarbha painting follows the typical style of the late Joseon period, with the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha at the centre flanked by the Ten Kings of the Underworld and their attendants; its colouring, in well-balanced red and green, gives a sense of stability, and the brushwork is delicate and fluent, though the painting is now badly damaged by insects. The Jeseok painting is unusual among such paintings in depicting, in a white circle at the upper left, Mount Sumeru rendered in ink - a feature rarely seen in other Jeseok paintings; aside from the areas done in heavy mineral pigment, the lightly tinted background is almost entirely damaged by insects. The Ksitigarbha and Jeseok Buddhist paintings of Mounsa Temple in Andong are the oldest surviving taenghwa produced in the Andong region, and are valuable as cultural heritage.

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Andong, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료