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Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

Gilt bronze

車安生造觀音菩薩像

中國

菩薩面相清臞,五官雖已鏽蝕不清,但端莊的神態依稀可見。頭戴高冠,寶繒隨肩飄垂。袒上身,佩項圈,戴腕釧,帔巾繞身向外側飄展,下著長裙,薄軟貼體,褶紋簡潔,下襬外揚有風動感。左臂彎曲向上,右臂下展握巾端,跣足立於覆蓮台上。下為四足方台,表面鐫刻發願文「延昌三年(514)二月四日車安生夫妻息曇□為父母造觀世音像一軀願使上父見老母為合家眷屬一切皆善益一時值佛並□諸□諸國陵」。
 此像蓮瓣形背光外層飾火焰紋,頭光作三重圓環狀。背光背面線刻釋迦、多寶二佛並坐像。二佛面相清秀,雙手籠袖,人物形態生動自然,似相對而語。整體形象已初具南朝(420~589)人物秀骨清像的特徵。
 北魏延昌年間(512~515)出現的金銅造像,菩薩的面相已由豐圓端莊變為清臞秀麗,且身軀已不復有扁平感,更突顯半圓狀背光,已逐步脫離了太和時期(477~499)造像的基本模式,開始向新的發展期過渡,這是北魏(386~534)拓跋族崇尚南朝士大夫風範的結果。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 67.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 67.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:67.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 67).
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booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F},
pages = 67,
title = {{Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva}},
volume = 10,
year = {2016}}


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