華嚴寺 丈六殿(각황전)의 복원적 관점에서 본 華嚴石經 보호각의 방향성

Abstract

Under the topic of directionality of the protecting canopy for the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions from the perspective of restoring Jangyukjeon at the Hwaeom Buddhist Temple, this study reviewed the content of restoration plans for Jangyukjeon and Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions at the temple investigated in previous studies and proposed a more developed restoration plan. After delving into the planes and cornerstones of the building, the investigator found something different from the old facts with regard to the interior and exterior of the building. There was a cornerstone groove to make the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions in the interior walls, and the cornerstones of exterior walls were smaller than those of interior walls. These findings led to a conclusion that the structure of the building did not endure relatively big force. The Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions that decorated the interior walls of Jangyukjeon were on the walls of three-meter high instead four-meter high in the old arguments because they had to take into consideration the basic penetration of light for the appreciation of a Buddhist statue enshrined in the building. As the interior walls of Jangyukjeon, the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions were not in the simple form of stacking up the stones but had wooden buffer materials between Wooden blocks like the wall line of common walls. This wall construction of Jangyukjeon explains the presence of rectangular grooves and holes in the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions. Given the restoration plans for Jangyukjeon containing the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions, it is likely that the Avatamska Sutra stone pieces housed at Sujanggo of the Hwaeom-sa temple will be a considerable size. Based on this content, the study made a couple of proposals that the temple should take into account when building a facility to house the Avatamska Sutra Stone Inscriptions.