Boseong Daewonsa Temple's 'Traditional Mountain Temple Cultural Heritage Utilization Project' Promotion

Published 06 Jul.2023 18:21(KST)

A Project to Understand Our Cultural Heritage and Share Its Value Together

Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will carry out the ‘Traditional Mountain Temple Cultural Heritage Utilization Project’ at Daewonsa Temple, a thousand-year-old Baekje temple, until December 31.

The ‘Traditional Mountain Temple Cultural Heritage Utilization Project’ is a program that reinterprets the meaning embedded in the cultural heritage of traditional mountain temples in a modern way to understand our cultural heritage and share its value together.

[Photo by Boseong-gun]

Boseong-gun plans to conduct various art festivals, experience programs, and exhibitions utilizing Buddhist cultural heritage held by Daewonsa Temple and widely promote the value of these cultural assets.

The target cultural heritage includes the Daewonsa Jizang Bosaldo and Siwangdo set, designated as treasures in 2013; the mural of Gwaneum Bosal and Dalma Dae-sa in the Geungnakjeon Hall of Daewonsa Temple, designated as a treasure in 2015; and the Daewonsa Geungnakjeon Hall and Daewonsa Jajinguksabu-do, designated as tangible cultural properties of Jeollanam-do.

The main programs include ‘Welcome! Is This Your First Time in the Afterlife?’ (exhibition), ‘Meeting Jizang Bosal’ (experience), ‘Daewonsa Spiritual Cultural Heritage’ (performance), and ‘Strolling Around Daewonsa’ (guided tour).

▲ ‘Welcome! Is This Your First Time in the Afterlife?’ is held every Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Daewonsa Tibetan Museum, where visitors can enjoy death experiences, the With God exhibition, and Bardo meditation experiences.

▲ ‘Meeting Jizang Bosal’ operates every weekend from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Daewonsa Experience Center, offering activities such as Jizang Sutra copying, rubbing printmaking, paper toy making, and traditional bookbinding.

▲ The Daewonsa Spiritual Cultural Heritage event will be held twice, on August 29 at 7 p.m. and October 21 at 4 p.m. This event, prepared at the Daewonsa Seon Literature Hall, features the Taearyeong Requiem Art Festival and the academic seminar and art festival .

▲ ‘Strolling Around Daewonsa’ takes place every Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. within the Daewonsa temple grounds. It is aimed at participants of middle school age and older, where monks will share stories about Daewonsa’s history and cultural heritage, Jizang Bosal and Taearyeong stories, and tales about Daewonsa’s trees.

A representative from Boseong-gun said, “We hope that Daewonsa, beautiful in all four seasons, will provide an opportunity to find the meaning of life through the hidden stories and experiences of cultural heritage.”

Meanwhile, this project is supported by the Cultural Heritage Administration and Boseong-gun and promoted by Daewonsa Temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Boseong-gun expects that the cultural heritage utilization project will serve as an opportunity to understand the past, experience the present, and form diverse thoughts and proper values that connect to the future.