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| yna@yna.co.kr 2026-08-27 10:27:02
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- Six cultural heritage items, ranging from a wooden statue of Indra, a deity traditionally depicted in Buddhist paintings, to a Buddhist scripture from the Goryeo Dynasty, have been designated national treasures for their historical and artistic value.
The National Heritage Administration said Thursday that it had designated the "Pyeongchang Sangwonsa Wooden Seated Statue of Indra and Excavated Relics," "Imsil Jingusa Temple Iron Seated Buddha," "Landscape and Figures Album by Yi Gyeong-yun," "Volume 1 of the Collected Works of Sambong," "Volume 3 of the First Printing of the Yogacarabhumi-sastra," and "Anseong Goshin Royal Appointment Document" as national treasures.
The "Pyeongchang Sangwonsa Wooden Seated Statue of Indra and Excavated Relics" is a rare example of Indra, a deity who protects Buddhist teachings, being sculpted rather than depicted in a Buddhist painting.
Records found among the relics discovered inside the statue in 2008, along with a votive inscription from the Sangwonsa Wooden Seated Child Manjusri, a national treasure, suggest that the statue was made no later than 1645.
The "Imsil Jingusa Temple Iron Seated Buddha" is an iron Buddha statue believed to have been made between the late ninth and early 10th centuries.
Features of iron Buddha statues from the late ninth century can be seen in its inverted-triangular face, neatly defined chin and mouth, double-curved nose bridge and narrow eyes. Its slender waist, full chest and softly rendered folds of clothing reflect the sculptural traditions of the height of the Unified Silla period.
The statue is believed to have been enshrined at Jingusa Temple, a major temple of the Silsangsan School, the first of the Nine Mountain Schools of Seon Buddhism established during the late Silla period. It is regarded as a work with significant historical, artistic and sculptural value.
The "Landscape and Figures Album by Yi Gyeong-yun," held by the Horim Museum, is an album containing landscape and figure paintings attributed to Yi Gyeong-yun, a leading literati painter of the mid-Joseon period.
The album also includes landscapes painted in gold, flower-and-bird paintings and figure paintings, as well as inscriptions and a postscript by Choe Rip. The materials offer rare evidence of the work's original owner and the circumstances surrounding its production.
The "Volume 1 of the Collected Works of Sambong," held by the Seoul Museum of History, is the first volume of a 1465 reprint of the collected works of Jeong Do-jeon.
After the original edition published during the reign of King Taejo was scattered and lost during the First Strife of Princes, Jeong's descendants collected his writings and republished them. A postscript by Yi Saek found only in this edition is a key source for tracing the work's initial publication and transmission.
The "Volume 3 of the First Printing of the Yogacarabhumi-sastra" is the third volume of a 100-volume Buddhist scripture translated by the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang.
It is highly rare as no other edition of the same volume has been found in Korea or abroad. It is an important resource not only for the study of Yogacara Buddhism during the Goryeo Dynasty but also for the history of the Korean language, as it contains Seokdok Gugyeol, an early system of annotating Classical Chinese texts with grammatical and phonetic markers.
The "Anseong Goshin Royal Appointment Document" is an appointment document issued by King Taejong in 1414 to appoint a person named An Seong as the provincial governor of Gangwon Province.
Written in seven lines in cursive script, the document bears the seal "Royal Document of the King of Joseon." It retains the term "wangji," used for appointment documents issued before 1435, making it a valuable source for understanding changes in the early Joseon documentary system as well as the government official structure and concurrent office-holding practices of the period.
The National Heritage Administration said it plans to systematically preserve and utilize the newly designated national treasures in cooperation with local governments and their owners and managers.
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