Seated gilt bronze Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue
There is a strange legend about the gilt-bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue, which dates back to the Japanese colonial era.
During the Japanese colonial era, numerous Korean treasures and relics were stolen and taken out.
Among the treasures stolen at this time was a gilt-bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue.
As the times change, it’s not easy to keep track of them, so I was just feeling rotten inside.
Then one day, he told Seonunsa that he would simply return the items.
A truly surprising event occurred: the gilt bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue was returned.
People who were curious about how the gilt bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue came back
I asked the monks, and the story they told me afterwards was this:
The person who returned it was Japanese, and he said that one day, by chance, he saw a gilt-bronze Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue.
I didn’t know that it came from Joseon, but I thought I just found a luxurious Buddha statue.
He said he bought it right away and brought it home.
“” I was originally at Dosolsan Mountain in Gochang. Please send it back there quickly. Although he said he said “”
At first, I ignored it and thought it was no big deal, saying I had all kinds of dreams.
But no matter how much time passed, the dream of a dog that I thought would be forgotten kept repeating itself every night.
It is said that, truly exquisitely, from that point on, he became ill and at the same time, the family’s fortunes began to decline.
In the end, a Japanese man who took the contents of the dream seriously looked for the previous owner who brought the Buddha statue.
In fact, the previous owner, just like the current storyteller, had the same dream in which the owner of the Buddha statue appeared when he bought it.
He got sick at exactly the same time, and the family fortunes began to decline.
He confessed that he sold the statue to the protagonist of the story because he was afraid of its curse.
As a result, the Japanese person who told the story realized that the problem was bigger than expected.
As I said in my dream, I started asking questions to return it to its original owner.
In the end, after some research, he found out that the Buddha statue he bought was a gilt-bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue.
In fact, I found out that it was stolen from Seonunsa Temple in Gochang.
It was explained to the monks at Seonunsa Temple that it would be returned immediately through the Gochang Police Station.
The gilt-bronze seated Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue did not return as a cultural property after the end of Japanese colonial rule.
He returned in November 1938, at the height of the Japanese colonial period.
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