Lumbini Mahadevi Temple: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha
Stone
樹下誕生圖
尼泊爾
位於尼泊爾貝拉瓦（Bhairawa）藍毗尼園摩耶夫人寺（Lumbini Maha Devi Temple）。該處是釋迦牟尼佛誕生地，原屬印度北方邦，十九世紀劃歸尼泊爾版圖，為佛教四大聖蹟之一。
此圖刻劃摩耶夫人於藍毗尼園無憂樹下降誕悉達多太子的情景。圖右側為摩耶夫人，比例顯得高大，右手上舉攀握枝葉茂盛的無憂樹，右腳微屈，重心置於左腳。臉龐豐圓，長髮垂肩。身形婀娜，豐胸細腰，通身裝飾華麗，佩大耳璫、珠串項鍊、臂釧、腕釧、足環；腰布和腰帶均綴以花鬘紋樣，細部裝飾雕刻精緻。
夫人身側由摩訶波闍波提攙扶，另有二位苦行者，其中長鬚躬身者為阿私陀仙人，手捧布巾，似欲承接太子；其下方雕刻一小太子，帶頭光，一手指天，一手指地，右腳邁出，象徵太子出生後跨出的第一步。
此作除無憂樹葉下淺刻九尊佛像，其餘造像均以高浮雕呈現，雕工技巧嫻熟，人物栩栩如生。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 647.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Lumbini Mahadevi Temple: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 647.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Lumbini Mahadevi Temple: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:647.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Lumbini Mahadevi Temple: Life of the Buddha - Birth of Prince Siddhartha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 647).
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