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Swat: Brahma and Sakra’s Request

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梵天勸請圖

巴基斯坦西北邊境省斯瓦特出土

巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省斯瓦特(Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)出土。佛傳故事浮雕之一。據《佛本行集經》卷三十三〈梵天勸請品〉記載,佛陀初成道後,思慮自證之真理甚深費解,眾生迷惑顛倒,難以教化,即使與人宣說亦徒勞無益,故欲入涅槃。梵天知悉後,與帝釋天等求請佛陀住世,大轉法輪,救度迷妄眾生。由此因緣,佛陀決定向世間宣說佛法,開啟了史上一大宗教的文明與偉大思想。
 此浮雕佛陀結跏趺坐於畫面中央刻有菱格花紋裝飾的台座上,雙手結禪定印。梵天為古印度婆羅門形象,立於佛陀的右邊;帝釋天戴敷巾冠飾,貴族裝扮,立於佛陀左側,二者均向佛陀合掌作禮。佛頭頂上方以高浮雕表現菩提樹,枝葉垂展而下,形如傘蓋。上方左右均有天人供養。
 佛陀的頭髮和衣紋線條皆採左右對稱方式表現,與伊朗地區美術有共同特徵。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1177.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Swat: Brahma and Sakra’s Request." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1177.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Swat: Brahma and Sakra’s Request" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1177.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Swat: Brahma and Sakra’s Request. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1177).
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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 St-Z},
pages = 1177,
title = {{Swat: Brahma and Sakra’s Request}},
volume = 13,
year = {2016}}


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