Loriyan Tangai: Brahma’s Request
Limestone
梵天勸請圖
巴基斯坦西北邊境省羅里延唐蓋佛寺遺址出土
巴基斯坦開伯爾巴圖克瓦省羅里延唐蓋（Loriyan Tangai, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa）佛寺遺址出土。浮雕右側殘損。佛結跏趺坐於菩提樹下金剛座上，雙手作禪定印，腳掌上刻有千輻輪。袒上身，僅以簡單的布帛繞身，下半身圍腰布，著裝方式與最早的秣菟羅（Mathura）佛像如出一轍。但本作品中佛尚未剃髮，而是束髮綰高髻，為犍陀羅地區最早的佛像樣式之一。佛右側為梵天偕護法天將，雙手合掌，禮佛跪拜，請佛住世說法的場景。
此作屬於犍陀羅早期作品，雕刻技法比較粗糙，構圖簡單，人物造型稚拙，頭部比例過大，姿勢生硬。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 643.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Loriyan Tangai: Brahma’s Request." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 643.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Loriyan Tangai: Brahma’s Request" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:643.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Loriyan Tangai: Brahma’s Request. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 643).
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