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Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara

Gilt bronze

十一面觀音菩薩像

中國

菩薩頭頂十面,分三層排列,高聳如冠。本面豐圓,五官刻劃傳神。身姿略呈三屈式,右手屈肘上舉執柳枝,左手下垂執寶瓶。袒上身,戴頸圈、腕釧,長瓔珞自右肩斜跨左膝部。著長裙,跣足立於仰覆蓮台上,蓮台下方形台座闢鏤空壼門。帔帛飄垂至蓮台外側,具風動感,襯托出菩薩生動的形象。蓮瓣形頭光,透雕忍冬紋圖案。該造像為盛唐時期(712~756)典型的十一面觀音鎏金銅造像。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 311.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 311).
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author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F},
pages = 311,
title = {{Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara}},
volume = 10,
year = {2016}}


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