Five storied stone pagoda of Jeongnimsa Temple site

Five storied stone pagoda of Jeongnimsa Temple site
Korean name
Hangul	부여 정림사지 오층석탑
Hanja	扶餘定林寺址五層石塔
Revised Romanization	Buyeo Jeongnimsaji Ocheung Seoktap
McCune–Reischauer	Puyŏ Chŏngnimsaji Och'ŭng Sŏkt'ap

The Five storied stone pagoda of Jeongnimsa Temple site (Korean: 부여 정림사지 오층석탑) is a five-story pagoda standing on a single narrow and low base pedestal. It was built in the Baekje Era.

Each pedestal is fixed by a pillar stone. Each corner of the pagoda body in each story holds a pillar stone using the beheullim technique, where a pillar's upper and lower extremities are narrow while its middle is convex. Thin and wide roof stones covering the edges of the eaves display what is described as "lofty elegance."

It is valued in that it shows refined and creative figures as well as the typical form of a wooden building like a thin pedestal, with pillars exhibiting the beheullim technique and thin and wide roof stones. The pagoda is also highly valued as one of the two last remaining stone pagodas from the Baekje Era.

Classification	National Treasures 9 (South Korea)
Kind of Cultural Properties	Stone Pagoda
Address	379, Dongnam-ri, Buyeo-eup, Buyeo-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
Age	Late Baekje Period

See also

• National Treasures of South Korea
• Baekje
• Korean Buddhist sculpture
• Korean Buddhism

External links

• Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea

Coordinates: 36°16′46″N 126°54′48″E / 36.27944°N 126.91333°E