According to a scroll found inside it (titled “Hwanseongsa Amitabha samjon joseong gyeorwonmun (Purpose of Creation of the Amitabha Buddha Statue of Hwanseongsa)”), this statue was created under a project which began in 1466 and came to completion in 1474. The project was, meanwhile, sponsored by a large number of patrons including members of the royal family, local officials and dignitaries and ordinary people of the parish. The same scroll informs that the wooden statue was carved by two Zen masters, Seongryo and Hyejeong. In spite of his rather broad knees, appearing heavy and blunt, the Buddha, with a long torso under narrow shoulders, appears slender. In such details as the narrow head with a pointed tip, shaped almost like a spinning top, the somewhat gaunt-looking face, compared to the plump faces of late Goryeo Buddhist statues, the narrow neckline baring less of the chest than is customary, the sharp fold on the robe in the area near the left shoulder and the garment folds that are in the shape of an inverted ‘U’, tilted toward the left, this statue shares the style of the Wooden Seated Amitabha Buddha of Heukseoka Temple, Yeongju (National Treasure No. 228, dating from 1458). The treatment of drapery in this statue is, meanwhile, similar also to the Wooden Seated Child Manjusri of Sangwonsa Temple, Pyeongchang (National Treasure No. 221) and other early Joseon Buddhist statues. The garment folds, sharply arched over the knees, and folds that jut out at the level immediately above the knees are some of the characteristics this statue shares with other early Joseon Buddhist sculptures. This Buddhist sculpture with a clearly established date and complete set of information on the circumstances of its creation, including the names of the monk sculptors and patrons, and the temple for which it was intended, is valuable as a reference for dating other early Joseon Buddhist sculptures. Meanwhile, as a native-style Buddhist sculpture embracing some of the foreign stylistic elements received in early Joseon, this work is comparable to the the Wooden Seated Amitabha Buddha of Heukseoka Temple in Yeongju in more than one respect. This masterpiece of sculpture, one of the very few surviving early Joseon sculptures, is of immeasurable significance for understanding the history of Joseon Buddhist sculpture.