Yonghe Temple: Mandala of Mount Sumeru
Gilt silver
銀鎏金須彌山曼荼羅
中國
銀質鎏金，圓形底座周壁飾廻紋、蓮瓣紋、卷草紋及藏文。曼荼羅中央為須彌山，雙層方形殿座，四隅設單檐小型宮殿。其上為圓柱形托座，上承雙層攢尖頂宮殿，應為帝釋天所居的忉利天宮。曼荼羅最外圍有十二座宮殿，均高二層，廡殿頂，腰檐上設平座，面闊三間，周設迴廊。須彌山及十二宮殿之間滿布蓮瓣形插飾，雕工精細。
須彌，又作須彌盧山、須彌留山、修迷樓山。原為印度神話的山名，佛教宇宙觀以此山為中心，周圍八山、八海環繞，形成一須彌世界。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 379.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Yonghe Temple: Mandala of Mount Sumeru." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 379.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Yonghe Temple: Mandala of Mount Sumeru" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:379.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Yonghe Temple: Mandala of Mount Sumeru. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 379).
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