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Classification
National Treasures 126
Name of Cultural
Properties
Bulguksasamcheungseoktamnaebalgyeonyumul(Relics found inside three storied pagoda of Bulguksa Temple)
Kind of Cultural
Properties
Other Metal Crafts
Quantity
Entire
Designated Date
1967.09.16
Address
(National Museum of Korea in.) 15, Jinhyeon-dong Gyeongju-si Gyeongsangbuk-do
Age
Unified Silla Period
Owner
Bulguksa Temple
Manager
National Museum of Korea
Description
These relics were found from the space for enshrining sarira inside the stone pagoda at Bulguksa Temple in Gyeongju-si City when it was dismantled for repair work in October 1966. In the center of the space were a sarira case and reliquaries along with a woodblock printing copy of the Dharani sutra.
Around them were a bronze image of apsara or flying angels, a bronze mirror, a miniature wooden pagoda, perfumery wrapped in silk, a crescent-shaped jade ornament and various beads.
On the foundation was a bundle of paper wrapped in silk, which had stuck together through times and the content of which was illegible.
Following are brief accounts of some major relics transferred from the pagoda for preservation. The exterior sarira case has an engraved roof and pedestal.
Each of the four sides is engraved with a symmetrical pattern of vine.
The roof also has a vine pattern and the top, ridge and corners of it are decorated with lotus flower patterns.
From the tip of the roof is hanging a leaf-shaped ornament.
This well-proportioned case is the most polished of the sarira cases of the Silla Era found so far. Oval and silver-plated, the exterior/interior sarira reliquaries are decorated with spawn-shaped dots and a gaudy lotus flower pattern typical of the mid-eighth century style. The hexahedral gold-plated sarira reliquary contained a little sarira bottle made of juniper.
The lid has a little knob shaped like a three-story pagoda.
Engraved on each of the front and back are two Bodhisattvas standing on each side of a pagoda.
The other sides are engraved with Mt.
Inwangsan. The woodblock printing copy of Mugujeonggwang Great Dharani Sutra is a roll of paper 620 cm long by 8 cm wide containing 8-9 characters a line.
Found eroded and oxidized, it had since got worse over a score of years before extensive restoration was conducted between 1988 and 1989.
The text contains some characters used only during the reign of Tse-tien Wu-hou (624-705) of Tang.
The copy found within Seokgatap Pagoda, which therefore must date from before the erection of the Pagoda in 751 when Bulguksa Temple was reconstructed by Kim daeseong, is the world's oldest extant example of woodblock printing. Seokgatap Pagoda, which therefore must date from before the erection of the Pagoda in 751 when Bulguksa Temple was reconstructed by Kim daeseong, is the world's oldest extant example of woodblock printing.
