Heungguksa Daeungjeon Gwaneumbosal Mural Painting, Yeosu
麗水 興國寺 大雄殿 觀音菩薩 壁畵
전라남도 여수시
Basic information
- Designation
- Treasure No.1862
- Category
- Painting
- Designated year
- 2015
- Location
- 여수시, 전라남도— 전라남도 여수시 흥국사길 160 (중흥동, 흥국사)
- Coordinates
- 34.751200, 127.661400Museum-based location
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Description
The painting of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in Daeungjeon Hall of Heungguksa Temple in Yeosu is known to be the only extant work completed by attaching a painting on paper to the wall behind the main altar of a dharma hall. The expression of the “treasure hair” draped upon the Bodhisattva’s shoulders, the garments worn by the young truth seeker Sudhana, and the shape of the ritual ewer are characteristic elements of Korean Buddhist painting of the seventeenth century. It is a rare Buddhist painting due to its unusual composition, in which Avalokitesvara and Sudhana are arranged with the ewer upon a lotus flower pedestal.
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