Maitreya Buddha and Attendants
Marble
Maitreya Buddha and Attendants
彌勒佛及脇侍像
中國
主尊佛身材壯碩，表情安詳，面相圓滿。雙手作無畏印、與願印。交腳坐，有二小鬼承足。兩旁各一弟子和脇侍菩薩，均立於龍口吐出的蓮台上，衣飾褶紋流暢圓轉。蓮台下對稱蹲伏二護法獅，造型特殊。背光以透雕手法展現樹幹和枝葉，雕有七尊小化佛，頂部為六飛天和寶塔。
雕像背面上部茂密樹葉中有三尊化佛；下部正中主佛結跏趺坐，二樹幹前各刻一思惟菩薩像，與正面雕像相呼應。佛座則刻有山神王、樹神王等造像，為當時流行的台座雕刻題材。正面有博山形香爐，其兩側各立一僧人及護法。
造像刻劃精美細緻，造型複雜但主次和諧分明，形象生動自然，是北齊（550～577）白石背屏像的巔峰之作。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 674.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Buddha and Attendants." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 674.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Buddha and Attendants" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:674.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Buddha and Attendants. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 674).
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