Decorations for the Buildings of Ruined Hoeamsa Temple in Yangjoo City

There was a room for the exhibition for the decorations of the buildings in Hoeamsa temple. It looked to be excavated under the ground. Most of the decorations were found in tearing part into pieces.

There were two kinds of decorations in the exhibition room.
The first was the dragon’s head.
In oriental society, the dragon was the sacred animal.
In Buddhism, the dragon was the messenger of Buddha’s teaching and the symbol of protecting Buddhism temple against the fire.

In explanation board, the dragon’s head was hung at the end of the beam.

The other one was the animal’s head.
Here the animal must be an imaginary, but there was no explanation for this animal’s head.
This animal’s head was decorated at the end of the eaves according to the explanation.