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Nimogram: Life of the Buddha - Departure and Renunciation

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巴基斯坦西北邊境省斯瓦特尼牟格蘭佛寺遺址出土

巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省斯瓦特(Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)尼牟格蘭(Nimogram)佛寺遺址出土。該長卷式構圖的浮雕表現夜深人靜時,悉達多太子毅然決然放棄富裕生活及高貴的太子地位,離城出家修道。圖中兩側為立柱,柱身浮雕雙手合十的供養人,虔誠胡跪於蓮花上。畫面中間,帶頭光的悉達多太子,騎著心愛的白馬犍陟,趁著宮中的侍衛、宮女夢寐,踰城而出,有天神托舉馬蹄,不讓馬蹄聲驚擾熟睡中的人們。太子左側是馬夫車匿和昏睡的衛兵,右邊及左右外側是來為太子引路、護駕的四天王,以及帝釋、梵天等天部諸神簇擁圍繞,一齊向著太子供養讚歎。太子頭光兩側,凸出的欄楯構造代表著城門建築。
 此作品以正面角度刻劃太子騎馬踰城的形象,不同於一般從側面表現。雕刻所用材質為容易加工的滑石,使臉部表情、衣紋等外觀看起來頗感柔軟,乳白的色澤光滑溫潤,成為尼牟格蘭寺造像的一大特點。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 762.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Nimogram: Life of the Buddha - Departure and Renunciation." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 762.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Nimogram: Life of the Buddha - Departure and Renunciation" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:762.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Nimogram: Life of the Buddha - Departure and Renunciation. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 762).
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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 N-Sr},
pages = 762,
title = {{Nimogram: Life of the Buddha - Departure and Renunciation}},
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year = {2016}}


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