Yugasa Yeongsanhoe Hanging Buddhist Painting, Dalseong

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.2279

Category

Painting

Era

1784년(조선 정조 8)

Designated year

2025

Location

달성군, 대구광역시— 대구광역시 달성군 유가사길 161(유가읍, 대한불교조계종 유가사)

Coordinates

35.714728, 128.507369Kakao address conversion

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The Yeongsan Assembly hanging scroll painting from Yugasa Temple in Dalseong is documented through its painting inscription to have been created in 1784, depicting the Yeongsan Assembly religious subject. While the painting inscription sustained partial damage during theft, preventing identification of the painter-monks, stylistic analysis of facial characteristics, bodily proportions and expression, compositional arrangement of iconographic elements, and diverse decorative pattern vocabulary suggests strong association with the Yuseong school of painter-monks active during the late eighteenth century. The composition adopts a three-body Buddha format featuring the historical Buddha Shakyamuni in overwhelmingly prominent scale at the center, with Vairocana Buddha and Locana Buddha depicted in reduced scale in the upper composition as manifestations of the cosmic body and sambhogakaya bodies. While a precedent for this compositional arrangement appears in the 1772 Yeongsan Assembly hanging scroll from Gaesimsa Temple in Seosan, the present work's depiction of the primary Buddha in seated posture represents an unprecedented sculptural format in hanging scroll painting tradition. During this period, most hanging scroll paintings exceeded ten meters in height; the present example represents a relatively modest-scale work, a distinction reflecting spatial architectural considerations specific to Yugasa Temple's physical layout. This format variation provides significant archaeological evidence for reconstructing the temple's spatial organization and facility scale during the period. Despite suffering upper and lower shaft loss through theft and some repainting of damaged areas, this rare seated-Buddha format with Yeongsan Assembly subject depicted as a three-body Buddha composition provides crucial research materials for Buddhist painting iconography and stylistic investigation.

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