Vajradhara
Gilt copper alloy
金剛持菩薩像
不丹
菩薩作青年形象，髮髹青色，紮成頂髻，髮束垂至肩膀。頭戴五葉寶冠，上鑲嵌寶石，兩側的四條冠帶向上飛揚。方額廣頤，眉眼細長，挺鼻薄唇，微帶笑意。
袒上身，佩戴裝飾著綠松石的項鍊，飾臂釧，身後向兩側延展出兩莖蓮花，上置金剛杵及金剛鈴，杵及鈴為金剛持的造像特徵。下裳表現於腿部，刻劃層層衣紋，兩腿相交處有著扇形的優雅襞褶。結跏趺坐於束腰仰覆蓮座上，花瓣作複瓣形，瓣尖略卷起；蓮座上下緣飾聯珠紋。
雕像年輕的臉龐、珠寶的樣式、精緻的銅鑄和鎏金技術，在在顯示出可能出自於尼瓦爾（Newar）地區，寬闊的肩膀和有力的四肢亦是十五世紀尼瓦爾式鑄像的風格。此像可能於尼泊爾製造，或是出自在不丹工作的尼瓦爾藝術家之手。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1290.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Vajradhara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1290.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Vajradhara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1290.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Vajradhara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1290).
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