Kaiyuan Temple Iron Buddha Hall: Amitabha Buddha
Iron
開元寺鐵佛
中國
位於福建省福州市開元寺鐵佛殿。佛像為阿彌陀佛，鑄造年代未見文獻記載，有兩種不同的說法，一說為唐（618～907）末五代（907～960）。另據清代（1644～1911）《榕城紀聞》記載，清順治十六年（1659）重建鐵佛殿，在佛座下發現一座銀塔，上題「宋元豐癸亥（1083）正月初一日立刺史劉瑾於癸亥四月初一日發開」，從而推測佛像的鑄造年代為北宋元豐年間（1078～1085）。一九九一年列為福建省文物保護文物。
該像螺髮肉髻，臉部豐滿，具唐代風格，雙耳垂肩，手結禪定印，結跏趺坐於蓮座上。袈裟衣領開襟低，衣褶層疊繁複。
坐佛總重約52公噸，為中國現存最大鐵佛之一。以鐵水澆鑄而成，表面披泥貼金，是研究古代冶煉技術的實物例證，具科學與藝術價值。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 516.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Kaiyuan Temple Iron Buddha Hall: Amitabha Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 516.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Kaiyuan Temple Iron Buddha Hall: Amitabha Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:516.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Kaiyuan Temple Iron Buddha Hall: Amitabha Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 516).
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