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Gaochang: Stupa

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宋慶塔

新疆維吾爾自治區吐魯番市高昌故城佛教遺址出土

新疆維吾爾自治區吐魯番市高昌故城佛教遺址出土。德人勒柯克於一九○二至一九○五年間發現。目前已發現屬於北涼時期(397~439)的河西走廊及新疆吐魯番地區石塔共有十四件,此為發表最早的北涼石塔。該塔保留較多犍陀羅覆鉢式佛塔的造型特徵,對研究早期塔的形制、功用及演變提供珍貴資料。
 該塔頂蓋已殘失,現存圓柱形塔身及八角形塔基覆鉢。八面塔基每面刻有長方形線框,每個框內分別線刻一像,共四男四女,面相豐圓,神態溫婉,造像線條簡練流暢,刻工精細;每像上方刻一八卦符號「震、巽、離、坤、兌、乾、坎、艮」,僅一面保存完好,二面部分殘損,其餘各面損壞嚴重。
 圓柱形塔身周刻三十五條直線,線條間刻《十二因緣經》經文和兩行供養人名,為宋慶、妻張。塔肩上部飾覆蓮瓣,周開八個圓拱形龕,龕內浮雕七尊跏趺坐佛及一尊交腳菩薩,亦皆殘損。
 此塔無紀年,其造像、文字、符號,反映當時的佛教思想,及佛教在傳播中和中國傳統信仰的結合,是研究北涼佛教、藝術的重要文物。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 372.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Gaochang: Stupa." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 372.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Gaochang: Stupa" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:372.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Gaochang: Stupa. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 372).
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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 G-M},
pages = 372,
title = {{Gaochang: Stupa}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}


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