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Kurkihar: Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara

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不空●(上四+下絹)索觀音菩薩像

印度比哈爾邦庫爾基哈爾出土

印度比哈爾邦庫爾基哈爾(Kurkihar, Bihar)出土。該像面相豐潤,身軀與手足比例勻稱,胸腹至大腿均顯得渾厚結實,反映出九世紀波羅王朝(Pala,約8~12世紀)造像特徵。
 菩薩一面三目六臂,束高髮髻,卷髮垂肩,寶冠正中供奉手結禪定印的阿彌陀佛。臉形橢圓,面帶笑容。上身佩戴繁複的裝飾品及珠串形聖線外,從左肩至右脇斜披一片鹿皮,胸前刻劃出帶角的羚羊頭。六臂中部分手掌略有損毀,右主臂下垂擱於腿上作與願印,一手平舉於胸側施無畏印,另一手屈肘朝外持念珠。左主臂後伸支於座上握長莖蓮花,一手平舉於胸側持●(Q)索,一手向外屈肘執經篋。盤左腿,舒右腿,右足斜踏蓮花,坐於仰覆蓮座上。從以上造像特徵,可知當為不空●(Q)索觀音像。
 舉身光上方損壞,仍可見圓形頭光內圈素淨,外緣雕一圈紋飾。蓮座下兩側各雕一小型女尊像,左尊為二臂多羅,右尊為四臂毗俱胝。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 572.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Kurkihar: Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 572.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Kurkihar: Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:572.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Kurkihar: Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 572).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M},
pages = 572,
title = {{Kurkihar: Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}


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