Butkara: Life of the Buddha - Return from Trayastrimsa Heaven
Green schist
佛降三道寶階圖
巴基斯坦西北邊境省斯瓦特布特卡拉佛寺遺址出土
巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省斯瓦特（Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa）布特卡拉（Butkara）佛寺遺址出土。佛陀曾上忉利天為母摩耶夫人說法三個月，從天界返回人間之際，帝釋天化現金、銀、琉璃等三道階梯使佛陀依此而降，蓮華色比丘尼則化為轉輪聖王之身迎接。
該浮雕斜向表現三道寶階，梵天綰髮，立於階梯右邊，帝釋天戴敷巾冠飾，立於左側，均雙手合十，神態恭謹。中央寶階最下一級有一雙佛足印，象徵佛陀，蓮華色比丘尼則於佛足前跪迎。
在犍陀羅造像中以佛足印等表現佛陀的象徵手法多屬早期的作品，此浮雕即為其中之一。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 230.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Butkara: Life of the Buddha - Return from Trayastrimsa Heaven." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 230.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Butkara: Life of the Buddha - Return from Trayastrimsa Heaven" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:230.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Butkara: Life of the Buddha - Return from Trayastrimsa Heaven. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 230).
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