운문사 전탑의 구조와 석조여래좌상 및 사천왕석주의 배치 연구

Abstract

There are a Seated Stone Buddha and the Sacheonwang Stone Pillar in Jakapjeon of Unmunsa Temple, Cheongdo. It is thought that the four Sacheonwang Stone Pillars and a Seated Stone Buddha in Jakapjeon of Unmunsa Temple originated from the five story brick stupa, which was established by State Priest Boyang as recorded in ‘BoyangiMok’ of 『SamgukYusa』and which is judged to be located in a different place from the current Jakapjeon. There is a stone in the temple that resembles the Sari hole of the wooden stupa, and this is thought to be the Sari hole in which the Buddha's relics(Sari) of the brick stupa was enshrined and to be located on the surface or underground of the center of the brick stupa. It is assumed that there was a central column that protects the Sari device on upper side of it like the Sacheon column of the wooden stupa, and the Sacheonwang Stone Pillar is assumed to play the role. It is assumed that the Sacheonwang stone pillars of the east, west, south and north each had similar height, facing each other's backs and defending the Sari outwards. The Seated Stone Buddha is very small even though it has both pedestal and halo. The pedestal has a hexagonal base, which is unusually wide from side to side and narrow from front to rear. This unusual shape of Buddhist Statue was probably placed in a space with low height and narrow from front to rear. There is one Buddhist statue currently, but it is presumed that each of the four statues was originally enshrined in the position of looking out the gates of east, west, south, and north in front of the Sacheonwang statue which stands at the center. It is assumed that the Seated Stone Buddha, each of which was enshrined at east, west, south and north, came to remain with a single Statue in the current building after going through the collapse and movement of brick stupa as time passed.