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Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas - Avalokitesvara

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Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas - Suryaprabha

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千手觀音及日光月光菩薩像

日本

三尊像雕造於九世紀,原供奉於日本和歌山道成寺本堂,現藏於該寺收藏庫。一九九四年指定為日本國寶。
 千手觀音為此寺之主尊,以四十四隻手象徵千臂,異於常見的四十二臂像。二脇侍傳為日光、月光菩薩立像,是極罕見之配置,故被視為係據《千手千眼觀世音菩薩廣大圓滿無礙大悲心陀羅尼經》所製,二菩薩為守護受持此經者。
 三像從軀幹至蓮台整材雕造,再接合其餘部位,以漆箔潤飾完成。千手觀音眉目細長,面相方圓,頰寬頤豐,腰身高,形體勻稱。除正面四隻手分別於胸前作合掌姿態及腹前捧鉢外,其餘手臂從肩後向兩側伸展呈放射狀,每隻手皆持有器物,正面兩邊分別持錫杖與矛戟,威武勇猛,變化中不失均衡。
 二脇侍身軀較短,魁碩豐厚,神態端莊,表現量感,推測與主尊的製作年代不同。皆手持蓮莖,採對稱姿態,頭光、蓮台形式與帔帛之轉折與主尊相彷。三像衣紋以低平淺刻之技法,刻飾卷渦紋樣,表現衣服的流暢柔軟質感。其造型之表現為當時該地區之代表作。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 296.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 296.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:296.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 296).
@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 = 296,
title = {{Dojoji Temple: Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara with Suryaprabha and Candraprabha Bodhisattvas}},
volume = 10,
year = {2016}}


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