Buddhism is based on the "agony" of life. The agony is due not to escape from Jukdo transmigration - a circle of Karma. The ceremony of Chosun Dynasty is emphasized as a means to achieve "do goodness" in this life and to stop the Jukdo transmigration....
Buddhism is based on the "agony" of life. The agony is due not to escape from Jukdo transmigration - a circle of Karma. The ceremony of Chosun Dynasty is emphasized as a means to achieve "do goodness" in this life and to stop the Jukdo transmigration.
Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa represents in major public's life style intertwined by Jukdo in low platform.
As a result, a Jukdo teaches to serve others on duty. In doing so, next life may reach to heaven or fall into Ha-kwi. Accordingly, Kam-Ro is consisted of low, middle, up platform showing steps of people's progressive development since it does recognize the people's agony of Jukdo.
According to the concept of low, middle, up platform, Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa displays the close relation of before life, this life, and next life. Middle platform expresses the ways and processes to escape from the before life suffering, and up platform shows how to deliver one's soul and to escape from a circle of Karma by serving others in this life. Therefore, the relation of three platforms reflects the faith which people in Chosun Dynasty had.
Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa contains the tangible and realistic structure which we can't find in other Buddhist paintings. Especially it treats differently the popular life style in Chosun Dynasty.
Yong-Ju-Sa(temple) and Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa was enshrined for his father's easy passage into paradise by King Jeong-Jo. King Jeong-Jo's love to his father made the painting extremely lofty and deeply emotional.
Yong-Ju-Sa's Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa excels in the composition and the form of painting. It gives a vivid description of Korean people, exceeding other paintings of those day. Also, the new style, drawing the shadow in the face can be found in Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa. It is the effect of the western style of painting.
Yong-Ju-Sa's Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwa is the greatest among the 16th to 18th century Kam-Ro-Tang-Hwas.