Maitreya Bodhisattva
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彌勒菩薩像
傳印尼蘇門答臘出土
傳印尼蘇門答臘（Sumatra）出土，為東南亞早期傑出的造像之一。此室利佛逝王朝（Srivijaya，約7～13世紀）銅像最顯著的特徵，在於頭頂上的佛塔冠飾，因而被視為彌勒菩薩。冠中的佛塔是代表大迦葉尊者的窣堵波，於此，尊者靜待彌勒成佛，以便傳付釋迦牟尼佛之袈裟。佛塔代表佛法，是法身的象徵。菩薩屈舉左手持經卷，亦被推測可能是代表大智文殊師利菩薩。
菩薩臉形細長，髮式高聳，長髮分數綹垂至身體兩側及背後。戴花形臂釧、細小的手鐲和簡單的耳飾。身形頎長，腰肢纖細，雙腿筆直；重心置於左腳，右腳微屈。下半身穿著輕薄的裹裙，同時配上中心飾有扣子的編織腰帶，使造像顯得特別精美雅致。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 661.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 661.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:661.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 661).
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