This study aims at revealing the building composition of Buddhist temples built in Chosun era from the compositional intention of Buddhist painting. A result of compare the building composition of Buddhist temples to the compositional intention of Bud...
This study aims at revealing the building composition of Buddhist temples built in Chosun era from the compositional intention of Buddhist painting. A result of compare the building composition of Buddhist temples to the compositional intention of Buddhist painting are as follow:
1. A Buddhist temple are divided into three categories like a compositional method of Buddhist painting : building groups of gods, Buddhisttvas, and Buddhas.
2. The irregular layout of Buddhist architecture is resemblant with irregular composition of Buddhist painting.
From the above results, the site layout of Buddhist temples could be concluded that the two dimensional composition of Buddhist painting were extended into three dimensional building compositon.