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The Stone Standing Buddha and the Stone Chamber, that is the main Buddha and Geumdang (the main temple) of the Mireukdaewonji, are located in 204Mireukri, Chungju City, Korea. The Mireukdaewonji is one of the important Buddhist temples in the Goryeo Dynasty (AD 918 to AD 1392) of ancient Korea. Within this cultural heritage zone, various stone cultural heritages such as the Five-story Stone Pagoda in Mireukri (Treasure No. 95) are widely distributed.

The Stone Standing Buddha is composed of six stones and is surrounded by masonry on three sides: east, south, and west. It is presumed that there was a wooden structure on the upper part of the Stone Chamber, but is no longer present (Ryoo, 2018). There is no exact historical record of when it was destroyed.

The temple’s history and name were revealed by conducting five excavation surveys from 1977 to 1991 (Kim, 2008). Since then, various art historical and archaeological studies have been carried out on the stone chamber structure, the only Stone Standing Buddha facing north in Korea, the form of the Bogae (a kind of stone hat), and the hand gestures holding a flower bud-shaped object (Jeong, 2008). On the other hand, conservation-related scientific investigation was not sufficient, and only visual observation of the physical, chemical and biological factors and surroundings was conducted.

With obvious structural deformation occurring in the western wall of the Stone Chamber, dismantling and repair work is currently underway (Fig. 1). In addition to this, to prepare the basic data for conservation and maintenance of the Stone Standing Buddha and Stone Chamber, a need for the scientific investigation has emerged. It is also required to examine the substitute stone for damaged parts of the Stone Chamber. Therefore, we expect that the results of this study will provide the basic data for the establishment of the long-term conservation management plan and the provenance interpretation for stone heritages.

Figure 1: Photographs showing the dismantling and repair work of the Stone Standing Buddha and Stone Chamber in the Mireukri temple site. (A) Before 2015, (B) March 2018, (C) March 2019.