Nalanda: Tara
Basalt
多羅菩薩像
印度比哈爾邦那爛陀寺遺址出土
印度比哈爾邦（Bihar）那爛陀寺遺址（Nalanda）出土。傳說多羅化生自觀音菩薩慈悲的眼淚，以救度眾生為天職，在藏傳佛教中被稱為度母。該像僅剩身軀，堪稱波羅王朝（Pala，約8～12世紀）密教女尊像中最美的作品，被喻為「印度的斷臂維那斯」。
菩薩呈三屈式立姿，表現女性曼妙的曲線，身材適度誇張，體現人體的形態美。首飾繁縟，項鍊、臂釧、腰帶和聖線等均刻劃精細，如金屬細工般絢麗，襯托出菩薩肌膚的光滑柔美。上身披薄紗，下身著透明薄紗裙，衣紋疏朗有致，呈水波形，加強此像曲線和諧的韻律感。此作品反映了十一世紀當時社會的審美趣味。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 752.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Nalanda: Tara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 752.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Nalanda: Tara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:752.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Nalanda: Tara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 752).
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