Four-Armed Maitreya
Brass
四臂彌勒菩薩像
中國
彌勒菩薩結跏趺坐，一面四臂，面部泥金，彩畫眉毛和嘴唇，頭戴三花冠，冠中有化佛，左右兩冠葉側立，形式別致。菩薩四臂中的前二臂，左手提淨瓶置靠膝上，右手上舉於胸，掌心向內；後二臂左手屈舉於左肩，右手置於膝上握梵篋。寬肩細腰，戴項鍊、臂釧、手鐲，裝飾簡潔。長裙輕薄貼體，衣褶以陰刻線表現。菩薩坐於束腰蓮座上，覆蓮正面刻有藏文。造像身軀飽滿、陰刻褶紋、蓮座花瓣寬大直接覆地等特徵，屬於巴基斯坦斯瓦特（Swat）風格。
四臂彌勒菩薩像多見於西藏早期佛教造像及東南亞地區，淨瓶可視為其標識；然因頭冠有化佛，故另有一說，此為觀音菩薩像。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 352.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Four-Armed Maitreya." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 352.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Four-Armed Maitreya" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:352.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Four-Armed Maitreya. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 352).
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