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Taxila: Life of the Buddha - First Turning of the Dharma Wheel

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釋迦牟尼佛初轉法輪圖

巴基斯坦西北邊境省塔克西拉遺址出土

巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省塔克西拉古城(Taxila, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)出土。釋迦牟尼佛成道後,因梵天等諸神勸請,於是決定住世說法,選擇於波羅奈國郊外鹿野苑對最早的弟子五比丘說法,在佛教史上稱為初轉法輪。該作品右半大部殘缺,場景中間的台座上刻有法輪、三寶標及相對背向的雙鹿,分別代表佛陀說法、佛法僧三寶具足及說法地點鹿野苑。釋迦牟尼佛結跏趺坐於台座上,左手握袈裟衣角,右手垂下置於法輪上,寓意「轉法輪」。
 台座右側坐著兩位比丘,神情專注地仰望佛陀;左側破損,推測原有另三位比丘。佛陀右側束髮、著袈裟合掌禮拜的神祇,可能是勸請說法的梵天,身後為執金剛神。執金剛神滿面鬚髯,一手持金剛杵,一手握拂子。圖上方有散花的飛天。作品雖有破損,但人物的配置富有層次感,初轉法輪圖像的標誌十分明確。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1198.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Taxila: Life of the Buddha - First Turning of the Dharma Wheel." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1198.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Taxila: Life of the Buddha - First Turning of the Dharma Wheel" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1198.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Taxila: Life of the Buddha - First Turning of the Dharma Wheel. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1198).
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booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z},
pages = 1198,
title = {{Taxila: Life of the Buddha - First Turning of the Dharma Wheel}},
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year = {2016}}


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