The most important part in these Buddha statues seems the smile according to the evaluation of the specialists on this part.
The expression of smile could be seen through the relief of the statues.
So I took the photos of the smile from different direction to take the best angle to show the smile more deliberately.
I'd like to show you the relief of Buddhas' faces from different angles.
Unlike other relief of Buddha face made in Goryeo dynasty, the faces of these buddhas are very similar that of Korean people’s face.
The faces of Buddhas made in Goryeo dynasty were little bit different from the faces of Korean ordinary people.
The Artists who carved these statue in Baekjae dynasty seemed try to carve and express Buddha’s face with the ordinary people’s face.
In Buddhist theory, it is believed that there is a Buddha in everyone’s mind. Looking at the smile of the faces, I thought that the masons in Baekjae dynasty tried to find Buddha in their neighbors’s face.