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Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara

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千手千眼觀音菩薩像

甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟第17窟出土

甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟第17窟出土。圖中央大圓光中,千手千眼觀音結跏趺坐於複瓣蓮座上,頂上有華蓋,頭光由劍尖形光芒重疊組成,外圈為藍色火焰紋。
 菩薩頭戴化佛寶冠,眉間有第三眼,身佩項圈、瓔珞、臂釧、腕釧,斜披紅色絡腋。胸前上二手各拈長莖蓮花,中二手合十,下二手置於腹前結定印。身側各手執日輪、月輪、蓮花、淨瓶等不同持物。身後有無數隻小手,每隻手畫有一眼,組成圓輪背光,外圈繪紅色火焰紋。
 圖上二隅是乘鵝車的月光菩薩和乘馬車的日光菩薩。觀音兩側為吉祥天和婆藪仙,大圓光在靠近婆藪仙的邊緣處可見墨書題記「婆首先」。觀音蓮座下的水池中有難陀、跋難陀二龍王,身形較小。圖下二隅是辟毒金剛、火頭金剛,皆有火焰包覆其身。圖下方缺損處原為二金剛足下所踏蓮台,此蓮台殘片現藏於俄羅斯艾爾米塔什國家博物館。
 作品外圍方框繪花卉邊飾,觀音膚色略施暈染,加強立體感,並以紅線勾勒輪廓,是一件描繪細緻、色彩鮮明的作品。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 669.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 669.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:669.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 669).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youlu and Wilson, Graham and Manho and Mankuang and Huntington, Susan,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O},
pages = 669,
title = {{Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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