Maitreya Bodhisattva
Gilt bronze
彌勒菩薩像
蒙古
菩薩通身裝飾樸質，頭光與身光透雕，跣足立於蓮花台上。高髮髻，飾寶塔，寶塔常為彌勒菩薩的造像特徵。左手持寶瓶，右手施無畏印，頭髮賦靛青色，與銅的光澤相互輝映。聖帶從左肩垂下，至腰部斜向右胯，轉折至後方，呈現出流暢的線條。衣裾翻飛，表現出腰部向左傾的動感。左肩上可見羊頭、羊角及前蹄；披掛羊皮是苦行僧或瑜伽行者的象徵。
此像姿態修長優雅自在，展現出菩薩純樸與謐靜的穩重感。圓形蓮台上刻有十字金剛杵，下焊接方形基座，屬獨特的蒙古札納巴札爾派（Zanabazar）造像風格。薄衣貼體，沿襲鹿野苑藝術風格，造像兼具西藏、尼泊爾佛教藝術特色，是為蒙古烏蘭巴托（Ulaanbaatar）地區佛教的藝術代表作之一。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 661.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 661.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:661.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 661).
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