국립중앙박물관 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA

Past Thematic
Buddhist Hanging Scrolls at Cheoneunsa Temple, Treasure No. 1340
  • Location

    Buddhist Painting Room, Fine Arts Gallery I

  • Date

    Apr-28-2009 ~ Aug-02-2009

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The hanging scroll of Buddha in Cheoneunsa temple is a painting of "Preach at the Vulture Peak" painted in 1673 with a magnificent screen of 8.94 height and 5.67m width of a joint of 15 pieces of 36cm wide hemp cloth.

Compared with the hanging scroll of Buddha in Jugnimsa temple in Naju(1622) that depicts a seated
Sakyamuni Buddha with a Bhumi-sparsa mudra, that in Cheoneunsa temple is a painting of a standing
Sakyamuni Buddha. The gaze of the Sakyamuni Buddha is like looking down and it feels like an earnest
preaching.

The record of the manufacturing of the painting informs that they wishes the welfare of the royal family and
their people under the auspice of the Buddha by making this hanging scroll of Buddha. It can be also
known that the name of temple was "Gamnosa[甘露寺]" temple when the hanging scroll of Buddha was
first painted,but it is not clear precisely when it started to be referred to as Cheoneunsa[泉隱寺],
the present name. The monks painting the hanging scroll of Buddha are three in all : They are
Gyeongsim[敬心], Jigam[志鑑] and Neungseong[能聖].