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A Study of the Priestling Image Pair on the Kshitigarbha Paintings in the 19th Century

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1동아대학교

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ABSTRACT

There were many Buddhist paintings combined with new icons and various expressions in the 19th century. In this circumstance, appearance of Priestling Iamge Pair on the Kshitigarbha Paintings was one of the great changes. Until now, the 18 paintings expressing the Priestling Image Pair in the 60 paintings appearing the Priestling Image remained among the 90 pieces of the Kshitigarbha Paintings. It is the most feature of this image that the elements as an arrangement(配置), a clothing(服飾), a taking thing(持物) of the expressions in the existing Priestling Image are different. The reasons in this change are an implication of an change and an emphasis of value in the role of the priestling. Meanwhile, the Kshitigarbha Paintings with expressing the Priestling Image Pair produced in the late 19th century are related to monk painters working in Gyeongbuk and Gyeonggi area according to possession places and record in the paintings. So, there is one possibility that the monk painters as Eungseok(應釋) and Chaehoon(軆訓) worked in the Gyeonggi area recognised and learned the new icon which is the Priestling Image Pair came in the Gyeongbuk area while they stay in the Gyeonggi area. There were the different expressions of the Priestling Image Pair each area. the Kshitigarbha Paintings with expressing the Priestling Image Pair from the Gyeonggi area were the same style of Jiyeon(指涓) because Eungseok(應釋) and Chaehoon(軆訓) borrowed the icon. After that, painters as Changsoo(昌秀), Junglin(仲獜), and so forth in the Gyeonggi area followed the expression. However, painters in the Gyeongbuk area put the Priestling Image Pair into the Kshitigarbha Painting in the lead of Haeuneungsang(霞隱應祥) who was a representative painter of Sabulsan-pa(四佛山派) in the late 19th century. As a result, there is a surmise that the painters in the Gyeongbuk area added some elements: a circular sparkle behind a head(頭光) and a circle to cover icon(圓圈) on the Priestling Image Pair to attempt to express the creative and various Priestling Image Pair more than the painters in the Gyeonggi area.

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