Beopjusa Temple: Great Maitreya Buddha
Gilt bronze
Beopjusa Temple: Great Maitreya Buddha
SOUTH KOREA, North Chungcheong, Boeun
This statue, completed in 1990,was built on the site of the original temple’s main hall and is dedicated to world peace and national unification. The giant figure is a reproduction of the original image that dates to the temple’s foundation, which was confiscated and melted down to make coins in 1872.
The statue stands on a lotus pedestal with hands in the abhaya (fearlessness) and varada (wish-granting) mudras. Seven Bodhisattvas riding on clouds are visible within the inner rim of the flame-patterned nimbus. The granite platform underneath the statue is actually a hall dedicated to Maitreya Buddha and a museum.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 127.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Beopjusa Temple: Great Maitreya Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 127.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Beopjusa Temple: Great Maitreya Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:127.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Beopjusa Temple: Great Maitreya Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 127).
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