흥천사 신중도의 도상 연구

Abstract

Since the 19th century, a variety of Buddhist temple services have been provided in the Heungcheonsa Temple, and four of them are guardian paintings. They include Geungnakbojeon Guardian Painting in 1885, a guardian painting created to be enshrined in Dae-bang and Sakra Devanam Indra Painting in 1890 and Cheolryeongdo painted in 1898. There are five Buddhist painting inscriptions from different periods in the Heungcheonsa Temple, and they read ‘Suweoldoryang Gonghwabulsa’ and ‘Gonghwabulsa.’ They can be summed up as follows. It is not clear since when and how the Buddhist temple services that had been recorded since the 16th century were offered, and it appears to be interpreted that Suweoldoryang refers to a space for memorial services meaning a Buddhist temple instead of indicating a specific Buddhist temple service after JakBeopGuiGam established at least in the 19th century and that Gonghwabulsa means that Buddhist services themselves are insignificant compared to teachings of Buddha. Starting with Guardian Painting of Bomunsa Temple (1867) by Gyeongseon- Eungseok, three of the guardian paintings owned by the Heungcheonsa Temple inherit the form of the guardian paintings that gained popularity in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province at the end of the 19th century. However, the guardian painting created in 1885 is characterized by Palgeumgang portrayed in the two sides of Witaecheon and various spots of the canvas, which was unprecedented in the existing guardian paintings in the Bomunsa Temple. It is the unique characteristics of the guardian paintings of the Heungcheon-sa Temple that made a new attempt in terms of forms as it goes hand in hand with the circumstances of the times at the end of the 19th century.