Sarnath: Head of a Buddha
Sandstone
佛頭像
印度北方邦鹿野苑遺址出土
印度北方邦瓦拉那西（Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh）鹿野苑（Sarnath）出土。佛帶印度人面貌特徵，下唇豐厚，形成上下光影的立體效果。其造像風格基本上與秣菟羅（Mathura）樣式相近，只是臉形線條更為柔和、渾圓，半閉的眼睛宛如進入甚深的禪定。螺髮右旋，排列整齊，肉髻隆起，具三十二相。佛陀的殊勝妙相源自印度人對人體美的看法，此思想演進至西元前五世紀被佛教吸收，應用於對佛陀完美的德行與超人格的詮釋。
鹿野苑造像於五世紀進入古典主義藝術階段，追求盡善盡美，透過雕刻藝術，表現出理想中莊嚴高貴的佛陀形象，此佛頭像即為範例之一。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 972.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Sarnath: Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 972.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sarnath: Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:972.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sarnath: Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 972).
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