Seated Gimcheon Gaeunsa Temple Ksitigarbha and Ten Kings Statues

The wooden seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Jijang bosal, the bodhisattva who vows to save all beings from hell) at Gaeunsa Temple has a bald head and an oval face, with narrow, elongated eyes, a large, straight nose, full lips, large ears, and a prominent baekho, the tuft of white hair between the eyebrows rendered as a raised dot. However, because the statue has since been regilded, it is difficult to examine its original material, carving technique and other features beneath the new gilding. The wooden statues of the Ten Kings have oval faces with small, delicate features, and bodies that are well-proportioned, slender and refined. The eighteen figures enshrined in the Myeongbujeon Hall, the hall dedicated to the underworld — Ksitigarbha, the Ten Kings, judge figures and attendant guards — are presumed to have been made around the 17th century, after the Manchu invasion of 1636. The retinue accompanying Ksitigarbha is complete, and the set survives whole, without damage.

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Where it is

Region

Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료