Amaravati: Paying Respect to a Stupa, Dharma Wheel, and Bodhi Tree
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阿瑪拉瓦提佛傳圖
印度安得拉邦阿瑪拉瓦提遺址出土
印度安得拉邦（Andhra Pradesh）阿瑪拉瓦提遺址（Amaravati）出土，屬於薩塔瓦哈納王朝（Satavahana，約200 BCE～250）盛期的作品。
縱長的石板分為三個區間，由下至上分別刻劃菩提樹、法輪和窣堵波，雕刻得相當細膩精緻，以象徵性手法表現了佛傳故事中的成道、初轉法輪和涅槃。在印度，大多佛傳故事浮雕中，包含太子降誕在內的佛傳四相圖較為普遍，但在南印度，卻可見省略誕生場面，或以踰城出家代替誕生的作品。
三幅畫面各以菩提樹、法輪及窣堵波為中心，供養者和飛天對稱安排於兩側，身姿動態富變化，菩提樹和法輪之下安置空寶座，象徵佛身像。以高浮雕刻劃，完美地表現出三度空間的縱深感。
此作品應屬阿瑪拉瓦提過渡時期的風格，人物造型變得活潑，線條柔軟，裝飾圖樣也漸趨華麗。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 22.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Amaravati: Paying Respect to a Stupa, Dharma Wheel, and Bodhi Tree." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 22.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Amaravati: Paying Respect to a Stupa, Dharma Wheel, and Bodhi Tree" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:22.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Amaravati: Paying Respect to a Stupa, Dharma Wheel, and Bodhi Tree. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 22).
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