Seated Bodhisattva
Bronze
菩薩坐像
中國
該像約鑄於八世紀。菩薩頭部稍微左傾，右足垂踏蓮花，左足盤屈在台座上，右手挽起帔巾，左手搭扶膝上，作自在之姿。此造型常見於盛唐（712～756）以後的三尊像之右脇侍。
菩薩髮髻尖聳，髮紋刻劃細緻，面相長圓，弓形雙眉，眼細長微微上揚，鼻挺，唇小，頰豐，斂目凝神，予人祥和之感。肩寬腰細，帔帛斜掛胸前，繞至肘臂，飄落體側。戴臂釧、腕釧、胸飾，珠串繞頸，並自右肩垂掛身前，更顯得華麗典雅。支撐右足的蓮莖，推測係由主尊蓮座分枝延伸開展而成。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 986.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Seated Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 986.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Seated Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:986.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Seated Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 986).
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