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The Gilt-bronze Maitreya in Meditation is a gilt-bronze statue of Maitreya seated in meditation and is one of the best known and most highly regarded Korean Buddhist sculptures. [1] Now part of the collection of the National Museum of Korea, it was designated as the 78th national treasure of Korea. [2] The statue is 83.2 centimeters in height.
Like the Ttukseom Buddha, the Kunsu-ri Buddha follows early Chinese and Korean conventions displaying the dhyana mudra. This particular mudra is notably absent in subsequent Japanese Buddhist sculpture which perhaps indicates that the iconography was out of style in Korea by the time Buddhist sculpture began arriving in Japan in the mid-6th ...
A large majority of the pan'gasayusang statues were produced over a period of 100 years, from the late 6th century to the early Unified Silla period. [2] This transitional time period was marked by much political turbulence, and Buddhism as a whole as well as the Maitreya played a significant symbolic role leading up to the peninsula's citation.
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Beopjusa (Korean: 법주사; Hanja: 法住社, lit. ' Residence of Dharma ' or Beopju temple), is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism.It is situated on the slopes of Songnisan, within Songnisan National Park, in Naesongni-myeon, Boeun County, in the province of North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Hwangnyongsa was the center of state-sponsored Buddhism during the Silla and Unified Silla eras which were cultural beacons of Buddhism during its time. [2] Its name means "Emperor/Imperial Dragon Temple." [2] Archaeological excavations and other scientific studies of the temple began in April 1976 (OCPRI [clarification needed] 1984) and ...
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Four larger-than-life statues created by sculptor Jay Warren, including this one of a U.S. Army Infantryman from the Korean War, have now been installed to the Korean War Memorial at the National ...