Artworks

Gigantic stone Maitreya at Kwanch’ok-sa

Artwork · Anonymous · 10th century–11th century · sculpture · Gwanchoksa

The largest of the gigantic Koryŏ statues, 18.1 m, at Gwanchoksa near Nonsan: a big-headed Maitreya in a tall hat, somewhat crudely modelled, perhaps with shamanistic associations; beside it a stone lantern of the late tenth century. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 92–93, fig. 46. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.