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Sarnath: Life of the Buddha

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印度北方邦鹿野苑遺址出土

印度北方邦瓦拉那西(Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)鹿野苑(Sarnath)出土。作品分為中、左、右三個區間。中間刻意鑿出,突顯主題,由下而上分作四層,依次是樹下誕生、降魔成道、初轉法輪及涅槃示寂等情景。
 太子誕生描繪摩耶夫人於藍毗尼園手攀無憂樹,太子從右脇出。摩耶夫人右側,難陀和跋難陀龍王降溫涼二水,灌太子身。降魔成道刻劃太子於菩提樹下禪坐,其時魔王波旬令四女和二魔擾其淨行,太子右手作觸地印,如如不動。初轉法輪表現太子成道後於鹿野苑說法,二菩薩侍立兩側,台座下刻聞法比丘。涅槃示寂中,佛陀右脇側臥於涅槃台上,面容安詳,左右兩側弟子代表眾多弟子隨侍身旁。涅槃台下延伸至左右區間,兩側之大娑羅花象徵娑羅雙樹,構圖別致。
 主圖左右區間表現佛陀在憍薩羅國都城舍衛城展現各種神通度化外道,化現千佛的情景,畫面共計立佛十尊、坐佛兩尊及跪拜人物四身。該造像人物的服飾簡潔,衣薄貼體,人物雖眾多卻不顯零亂。其雕刻細緻,可謂笈多王朝(約320~550)鹿野苑雕刻傑作之一。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 973.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Sarnath: Life of the Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 973.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sarnath: Life of the Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:973.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sarnath: Life of the Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 973).
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