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Mathura: Life of the Buddha

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印度北方邦秣菟羅羅赭迦特公園出土

印度北方邦秣菟羅(Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)羅赭迦特公園(Rajghat)出土。畫面共有五個場景,基本上從圖右至左按故事發生的時間順序鋪陳,但中央的佛自忉利天返人間圖卻打破了時間的序列。右起第一個場景為樹下誕生,其下雕二龍王灌水。第二個場景是降魔成道,佛趺坐於金剛座上,座下有拉弓射箭的魔軍。第三個場景中央刻劃三道寶階,寶階上方可見忉利天宮及釋迦牟尼佛的敷巾冠飾;佛及梵天、帝釋天立於寶階最後一級,下方有跪拜歡迎的弟子和信眾。第四個場景為初轉法輪,佛趺坐於金剛座上,座下兩側有二比丘,均仰首合掌,恭敬聞法。最後是涅槃場景,佛右脇而臥,身後三名舉哀弟子,上方刻娑羅雙樹。佛自忉利天返人間為秣菟羅極為流行的佛傳故事題材之一,被置於畫面的中央,突顯其重要意涵。
 秣菟羅的佛像並不是模仿犍陀羅希臘化風格的佛像,而是延伸本土傳統風格創造。由佛陀厚重的通肩大衣及波浪式的卷髮等特徵判斷,此浮雕品應該是二世紀上半葉的作品。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 697.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Life of the Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 697.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Life of the Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:697.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Life of the Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 697).
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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 G-M},
pages = 697,
title = {{Mathura: Life of the Buddha}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}


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