Three-story Stone Pagoda from Docheonsa Temple Site, Mungyeong

Basic information

Designation

Treasure No.607

Category

Sites & Pagodas

Era

통일신라시대

Designated year

1976

Location

김천시, 경상북도— 경북 김천시 대항면 북암길 89 (운수리)

Coordinates

36.116870, 128.003297

This three-story stone pagoda stands outside the Birojeon Hall of Jikjisa Temple. It was brought to its present location in 1974, along with the two other pagodas outside Daeungjeon Hall (Treasure No. 606) from the former site of Docheonsa Temple, located at a bank of the Geumgang River, lying north of Ungchang Village in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The pagoda is mounted on a single-tiered base. The pagoda base rests on a stone support in two levels placed on top of flag stones at the bottom. The base is made of a series of stone slabs and has pillar-shaped details sculpted at the corner edges and in the middle of the four lateral faces. The body and roof of the pagoda at each of the three stories are separate stones. A very distinct pillar-like design is added at corner edges of the body stone. The thin and shallow-pitched roof has a five-tiered moulding at its base. The sharply turned-up corners of the roof give an air of lightness to the pagoda. Despite the fact that the body stone at the first story is greater in height than the two others, the pagoda appears proportionate and elegant. The three-story stone pagoda of Docheonsa is a masterful piece of pagoda architecture in a classical 9th-century (late Unified Silla) style.

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