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Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell

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Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell (detail)

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Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell (detail)

地藏十王圖

甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟第17窟出土

甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟第17窟出土。圖中主尊地藏菩薩坐於蓮座上,頭戴風帽,左手置於膝上,右手執錫杖,錫杖尾端以小蓮台承托。身披遠山紋樣袈裟,盤右足,垂左足踏一蓮花。帶多層頭光及背光,頂上帳幔形華蓋飾有花葉;兩側射出六道光芒,上書榜題,象徵六道。
 地藏菩薩兩側為十王,均配二侍者,案上置攤開案的卷。榜題明確,且保存完好。地藏前方岩石上的綠色琉璃碗內有供花。岩石兩旁各有二身判官,執笏而坐。四判官上方繪金毛獅子及道明和尚,典出敦煌遺書《還魂記》。
 圖下方的發願文題記共二十二行,綠色為地,書寫漢字,明確記載「太平興國八年(983)」字樣,由此可知此圖繪製年代。題記左邊繪引路菩薩乘淡紫色雲彩,執幡接引亡者,其頭光旁墨書回鶻文;身側書有「南无引路菩薩」榜題。發願題記右側繪一裝扮華麗的婦人及四位侍女。婦人頭戴金鳳冠,手捧金色淨瓶,身著黑袍華服,立於花色方毯上,身側書寫二行回鶻文,身後侍女或執扇或捧物,身形較小。作品設色精緻,是具有明確紀年的重要作品。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 618.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 618.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:618.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 618).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youlu and Wilson, Graham and Manho and Mankuang and Huntington, Susan,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O},
pages = 618,
title = {{Mogao Cave 17: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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