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Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter (detail)

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Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter (detail)

法華經普門品插圖

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。繪製於九世紀下半葉至十世紀上半葉。
 《觀世音菩薩普門品》,又稱《觀音經普門品》、《普門品》,為《妙法蓮華經》第二十五品。觀世音菩薩慈悲救濟眾生,若眾生遇難之時,誦念觀音名號,菩薩即觀其音聲,前往拯救。普門係指眾生根機不同,觀音普應群機,無不示現。
 此長卷保存良好,色彩亦鮮豔不減,唯畫卷略微缺失,內容為觀音菩薩救濟諸難的事蹟。以《妙法蓮華經》卷七〈觀世音菩薩普門品〉經文中「無盡意菩薩白佛言」作為開始,以「觀音經一卷」結束。
 經文工整書寫於長卷的下半部,上方輔以相應的插圖。如經文「假使興害意,推洛(落)大火坑,念彼觀音力,火坑變成池」,則繪熊熊火焰,旁有一人向前方站立者推去;其餘有囚禁枷鎖、遇惡羅剎……諸場景,頌揚觀音菩薩隨處應化、救苦救難的功德。
 作畫的工具並非毛筆,而是蘆葦筆,但依然有很強的表現力。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 593.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 593.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:593.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 593).
@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 = 593,
title = {{Mogao Cave 17: Illustrated Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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