Mogao Cave 17: Vajrasattva Mandala
Ink and color on silk
金剛薩埵曼荼羅圖
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。金剛薩埵為胎藏界曼荼羅金剛部院大智金剛部之主尊，以摧破惡障為本願。
此圖主尊為金剛薩埵，頂上有華蓋，白色身形，多層頭光、背光，以暈染手法表現。頭略向左傾，戴寶冠。左手握金剛鈴，右手持金剛杵置於胸前，結跏趺坐於蓮座上，身軀呈「S」形。所握的金剛鈴開口朝上，與不空譯《大樂金剛不空真實三昧耶經般若波羅蜜多理趣釋》描述鈴口朝下不同，然在西藏、尼泊爾的金剛薩埵圖像傳承中，則多有鈴口朝上者。
圖四隅配置四身內供養菩薩，上二身為金剛歌、金剛鬘，下二身為金剛舞、金剛嬉，間以蔓草裝飾。圖下部繪一女子，多已損毀，推測應是供養人像。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 684.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Cave 17: Vajrasattva Mandala." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 684.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Cave 17: Vajrasattva Mandala" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:684.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Cave 17: Vajrasattva Mandala. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 684).
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