Longxing Temple Great Compassion Pavilion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara
Copper alloy
隆興寺千手千眼觀音菩薩像
中國
位於河北省石家莊市正定縣隆興寺大悲閣，為中國現存年代最早、體量最大的銅鑄觀音像，其樣式依唐（618～907）伽梵達摩譯的《千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經》儀軌。據隆興寺的碑記記載，該像為宋太祖趙匡胤（960～976在位）敕造，分七段鑄成，先鑄像後蓋閣。太祖曾三次親自視察，先後動用三千餘工匠，可見當時工程浩大。
菩薩立於2.2公尺高的石造蓮台上，體態纖細挺直，表情莊嚴靜穆，衣紋轉折流暢自然，瓔珞嚴身，造型富麗。共計四十二臂，二主臂與身軀連鑄，當胸合十，左右二十臂呈輻射狀，手中分執日月、寶劍、淨瓶、寶鏡、寶杖、麈尾、金剛杵等物。除當胸合十的雙臂與身軀外，其餘分鑄接裝的四十臂毀於清乾隆年間（1736～1795），現存木臂是一九四四年重修大悲閣時補加。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 621.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Longxing Temple Great Compassion Pavilion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 621.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Longxing Temple Great Compassion Pavilion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:621.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Longxing Temple Great Compassion Pavilion: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 621).
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