It looks like same when you look at the temple in first time.
But when you pay attention carefully each temples, you can find out the differences among those temple.
The role and meaning is same in the buildings in temple, but sometimes the name, ornaments and decorations are different in many points.
In this temple of Keumsan-sa. I saw the unique building for the dead.
Jijang-Jeon is the building for the dead in common temples. But Keumsan-sa temple was different. The name of the building was slightly different. It was Daejang-Jeon. It means the Big Jijang-Jeon.
Why did they put Big to the name of Jijang-Jeon ?
In my guess, they must’ve tried to give more importance to the building for the dead.
If not, they seemed to try to highlight the meaning of the death and the salvation.
The arrangement of the buildings of Daejang-Jeon and Mireuk-Jeon was very meaningful.
Those buildings were deployed to look at each other.
Below is the scene through the hole of the stone lantern standing in front of the Deajang-Jeon.
As I posted before, Mireuk-Jeon is the place for the Future Buddha of salvation.
In Buddhism, Mireuk, Maitreya, seems as same as the Messiah.
And the Jijang Jeon was the prying place for the dead.
In my thought, this deployment has a specific meaning. My interpretation is that “ Even though we die, we need to wait for the salvation.”
Along with the arrangement, the sculpture in Daejang-Jeon was quite different to other temples.
There were no other statues of the Heaven Kings presiding over the world of the afterlife.
The architect of this building seemed to highlight solely the Jijang Bodhisattva.
Unlike other Jijang-Jeon, Jijang Bodhisattva statue in Keumsan-sa was made with splendid.
It looked like Buddha not a Bodhisattva.
Why did they remove the Heaven Kings ? There must be several explanations and interpretations.
In my guess, the architect wanted to focus on the dead not the inferno or the hell.
Or, the architect'd ve connected the death directly to the salvation in the future not to the judge in the hell.
