Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Wood
觀音菩薩像
中國
菩薩面貌圓潤，低首垂目，髮髻高聳，頂戴化佛寶冠，長髮披肩。袒上身，搭帔帛，斜披絡腋，佩項圈、臂釧。右腿弓起，右臂擱右膝上自然伸展。左腿盤坐，左手屈肘倚於身後的扶几，儀態大方，坐姿優雅。整體造型曲線柔美細膩，臂膀修長，尤其手指表現得纖細精巧，肌膚似有彈性。長裙襞褶以陰線勾勒，顯得厚實又自然。
此種坐姿的觀音形象，有學者認為是因唐武宗（840～846在位）滅佛以後，佛教民間化，再加上宋代（960～1279）人文意識興起，因此出現人間性格強烈的宗教造像，蔚為宋代菩薩像的顯著特色。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 82.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 82.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:82.
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. 82).
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