Four-Armed Avalokitesvara
Copper alloy
四臂觀音菩薩像
不丹
菩薩臉形方正，作一面四臂相。青髮，梳雙層頂髻，頂飾寶珠，兩綹長髮垂肩。頭戴精緻五葉冠，佩項圈、臂釧和腕釧，繫腰帶，寶冠和飾品上均鑲嵌綠松石。臉部和頸項敷冷金，五官以色彩描繪。左胸前披羚羊皮，下身著裙，裙面淺刻波浪紋，富變化的紋路和纏繞手肘的帔帛，再加上由頭冠垂下的卷曲飄帶，使此像充滿了生氣和動感。
四臂之前二手持一珠當胸，後左手原似持念珠，右手擎蓮花，象徵解脫及清淨，現均已遺失。菩薩結跏趺坐於束腰仰覆蓮瓣台座上，上緣飾聯珠紋，蓮花瓣作葉片形，為不丹造像常見的樣式。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 347.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Four-Armed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 347.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Four-Armed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:347.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Four-Armed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 347).
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