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Ahichhatra: Maitreya Bodhisattva

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印度北方邦阿喜車多羅出土

印度北方邦阿喜車多羅(Ahichhatra, Uttar Pradesh)出土。此地距秣菟羅(Mathura)東北約200公里。該像的砂岩材質及造型風格都與貴霜王朝(約1〜3世紀)的秣菟羅造像相近,一般認為是在秣菟羅製造完成後才移到此地。
 菩薩頭部漩渦狀螺髮,與一般頭戴印度式包頭巾的菩薩像不同。戴耳環、胸飾、聖帶、腕釧等飾物,下半身著輕薄透體的腰布。右手施無畏印,掌心刻有千輻輪,左臂屈肘於腰間持一水瓶。菩薩背後巨大的頭光飾有連弧紋;連弧紋和卷曲的螺髮是秣菟羅的造像特徵,影響甚至遠及南、中印度。台座上原刻有兩行銘文,因磨損僅剩第二行的部分,意為「……造彌勒像為一切眾生之利益與安樂」。
 雕像尺寸雖小,卻顯得高大壯碩,體現貴霜秣菟羅強調健壯的造像風格。在雕刻技術上,此像比巴爾胡特與阿瑪拉瓦提的雕像,更能表現人體的立體感和勻稱比例。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 3.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Ahichhatra: Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 3.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Ahichhatra: Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:3.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Ahichhatra: Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 3).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F},
pages = 3,
title = {{Ahichhatra: Maitreya Bodhisattva}},
volume = 10,
year = {2016}}


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