토함산 석불사 보현보살상은 盛唐양식의 영향을 받아 인체의 감각적인 아름다움을 사실적으로 재현하는 한편, 거기에 여러 가지 형태변화를 가하여 중국 조각의 世俗性과 官能性을 止揚하고 종교적 敬虔함과 숭고한 아름다움을 부여하였다. 그리하여 인체가 당당하고 화려하게 그 자태를 드러내면서도 현실 인체에서는 볼 수 없는 종교적 敬虔함과 숭고한 분위기가 작품 전체를 지배하고 있다. 인체의 감각적인 아름다움을 유지하면서도 정신적, 종교적 깊이를 體現한다라고 하는 실로 도달하기 어려운 경지에 이르러 있는 작품으로 감각과 정신, 현실과 초월이라는 상반된 세계관이 한 작품 안에서 서로 무르녹듯이 융합해 있는 것을 볼 수 있다. 본존상이 正覺에 도달한 여래의 정신적 깊이를 여러 가지 형식주의적인 틀을 이용하여 엄정한 형태로 시각화하고 있는 데에 비해서 보현보살상에서는 보다 인간적인 면모를 살려서 표현하는 데에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 위로는 菩提를 구하고 아래로는 중생을 교화한다라고 하는 보살의 존재를 시각화하는 데에 따르는 필연적인 선택이었던 것으로 여겨진다. 본존상에 이어 보현보살상, 그리고 따로 분석하게 될 십일면관음상의 고찰을 통해 토함산 석불사 불상을 조성한 장인이 얼마만큼 주도면밀하게 재현할 대상의 성격과 종교적인 의미를 이해하고 있었는가, 또 각 존상의 정신적 내용을 얼마만큼 완벽하게 심미적 형태로 시각화하고 있는가 하는 것이 새삼 이해되었다.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image in Sukbulsa cave temple at Thohamsan is represented realistically the sensual beauty of the human body receiving the influence of the mature style of the Tang Buddhist sculpture, while is endowed with the religious reverence and noble beauty through transforming to be sublated the secularity and sensualism of the chinese sculpture of the same age . Therefore the religious piety and noble atmosphere which can not be found at all in the real human body dominate the image throughly with manifesting the figure of the human body stately and splendidly. The image is the masterpiece which has attained the really difficult stage to arrive what is called embodying the spiritual and religious depth with keeping the sensual beauty, thus the heterogeneous view of the world what is called the sensuality and spirituality, or the realism and transcendentalism have been merged maturely in one piece. In Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image is focused on representing even more humanistically than visualizing the spiritual depth of the Buddha to attain the spiritual enlightenment in the rigid form by using the formal frame in the principal image. It seems to be the necessary selection to represent Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image more humanistically according to visualizing the existence of the Bodhisattva what be called upward looking for the Bodhi and downward enlightening the all creatures. Through studying the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image following the principal image and studying the Eleven headed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva image in the recent future, We can perceive how perfectly being understood the characters and the religious meanings of the object to be represented in Sukbulsa cave temple, and how perfectly being achieved the esthetical visualization of the spiritual contents of the each divinity.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image in Sukbulsa cave temple at Thohamsan is represented realistically the sensual beauty of the human body receiving the influence of the mature style of the Tang Buddhist sculpture, while is endowed with the religious reverence and noble beauty through transforming to be sublated the secularity and sensualism of the chinese sculpture of the same age . Therefore the religious piety and noble atmosphere which can not be found at all in the real human body dominate the image throughly with manifesting the figure of the human body stately and splendidly. The image is the masterpiece which has attained the really difficult stage to arrive what is called embodying the spiritual and religious depth with keeping the sensual beauty, thus the heterogeneous view of the world what is called the sensuality and spirituality, or the realism and transcendentalism have been merged maturely in one piece. In Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image is focused on representing even more humanistically than visualizing the spiritual depth of the Buddha to attain the spiritual enlightenment in the rigid form by using the formal frame in the principal image. It seems to be the necessary selection to represent Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image more humanistically according to visualizing the existence of the Bodhisattva what be called upward looking for the Bodhi and downward enlightening the all creatures. Through studying the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva image following the principal image and studying the Eleven headed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva image in the recent future, We can perceive how perfectly being understood the characters and the religious meanings of the object to be represented in Sukbulsa cave temple, and how perfectly being achieved the esthetical visualization of the spiritual contents of the each divinity.

realism, spirituality, sensuality, secularity, transcendentalism, reverence, formal frame