Maitreya Buddha
Stone
Maitreya Buddha (back)
彌勒佛交腳坐像
中國
彌勒佛容貌圓滿，高肉髻，厚唇，大耳垂肩，著圓領通肩袈裟，雙手於胸前作轉法輪印，交腳而坐，趾尖踮於長方形台座上。衣褶紋飾簡潔無華，佛座亦不多加雕飾，顯現古樸沉穩的氣質。橢圓形大背光正面淺刻火焰紋，背面有銘文，並汲取漢代（206 BCE～220）畫像石藝術的線刻手法刻劃三層佛傳故事與本生故事，構圖簡潔生動。
此像與西安碑林博物館藏的皇興五年（471）彌勒佛交腳坐像相似，相貌已轉變成中原漢人面貌，然袈裟式樣仍可見犍陀羅造像遺風。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 666.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 666).
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