Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate: Four Heavenly Kings (detail)
Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate: Four Heavenly Kings (detail)
Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate
松廣寺四天王像
韓國
位於韓國全羅南道順天市松廣面曹溪山北麓松廣寺天王門內。依據寺院的紀錄，四天王像造於朝鮮仁祖六年（1628）。朝鮮肅宗四十五年（1719）重妝。朝鮮純祖六年（1806）進行補修與重修。二○○六年指定為韓國寶物第1467號。
四天王又作護國四王，居須彌山四方之半腹，常守護佛法，護持四天下，令諸惡鬼神不得侵害眾生，故稱護世，又稱護國。
該四天王像為多聞天王、廣目天王、增長天王、持國天王，均大眼圓睜，眉毛高高上翹，表情嚴肅，頭戴盔，身穿鎧甲，腳下踩有惡鬼等。天王像內部發現大批典籍，共十二種十四冊，二○○六年該批典籍指定為韓國寶物第1468號。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 1107.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate: Four Heavenly Kings." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 1107.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate: Four Heavenly Kings" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:1107.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Songgwangsa Temple Heavenly King Gate: Four Heavenly Kings. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 1107).
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