Medicine Buddha and Eighteen Arhats
Color and gold on cloth
藥師佛及十八羅漢像
中國
十九世紀西藏唐卡。主尊藥師佛居中，高肉髻，頂飾髻珠，著紅色袈裟，結跏趺坐於蓮座上。左手托藥鉢置於腹前，鉢內置醫藥用訶子枝葉，右手垂於膝前。帶圓形頭光和身光，頂端一獸面，火焰紋間飾寶珠，兩側雙龍盤繞，花卉扶疏。須彌座中央飾法輪，另有二雪獅回首相望。其下供桌上置海螺及鉢等供物。
佛左側為目犍連，右側為舍利弗，上方為格魯派創始者宗喀巴（tsong kha pa）。圍繞主尊的是十八位羅漢，或踏蓮葉，或乘祥雲，或乘龍靈渡海，或泛舟而行等，姿態各異，為十三世紀以來西藏藝術普遍的題材。畫面左下隅為四天王，下部藍色海洋中有龍神奉獻寶石。
畫作設色描金，繪工精緻，為後藏風格的典範。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 525.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Medicine Buddha and Eighteen Arhats." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 525.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Medicine Buddha and Eighteen Arhats" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:525.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Medicine Buddha and Eighteen Arhats. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 525).
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