Sikri: Ascetic Sakyamuni
Schist
釋迦苦行像
巴基斯坦俾路支省西克里出土
一八八〇年巴基斯坦俾路支省西克里（Sikri, Balochistan）出土。此像刻劃了成佛前處於苦行階段的悉達多太子。太子面容枯槁，鬚髮蒼然，眼窩、面頰和腹部深陷，鎖骨和肋骨凸顯，暴露的血管和筋脈，呈現極端的羸弱和消瘦，出土之初震撼人心。
造型嚴格寫實，冷峻逼真，與莊嚴圓滿的佛像大相逕庭，顯示追求覺悟的崇高精神。悉達多太子緊閉雙唇，挺起胸膛，兩手作禪定印，結跏趺坐於鋪有吉祥草的台座上。
雖然瘦骨嶙峋狀如骷髏，卻鎮定自若，表現出內在性格的堅忍剛毅，是古犍陀羅造像藝術傑出的精品。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 1091.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Sikri: Ascetic Sakyamuni." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 1091.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sikri: Ascetic Sakyamuni" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:1091.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sikri: Ascetic Sakyamuni. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 1091).
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