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Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara

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千手千眼觀音菩薩像

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。觀音頭戴化佛寶冠,跣足立於重瓣蓮台上;其髮為紺青色,寶冠兩側飾繒帶,身披紅色絡腋及帔帛,胸前、兩臂、手腕均佩釧,下著長裙。
 觀音背後有一巨形背光,所有手臂伸展形成圓輪,前四十手分持毛筆、書卷、蓮花、念珠、錫杖等不同法器,象徵菩薩為利益一切眾生的悲願。部分法器還左、右成對,如右手持毛筆,左手拿書卷;右手執弓,左手握箭;左手托日輪,右手托月輪。
 圖左下角繪有跪捧花盤的吉祥天,右下角則有持杖仰身安坐的老者婆藪仙,均跪或坐於蓮座上。圖上方二隅則繪二株四瓣四葉的植物,作為點綴留白處之用。
 此圖設色以紅、藍、綠為主,色彩並不多變,但在人物的膚色上則施加暈染,以期表現立體感。線條描繪並非精細,構圖趨於形式化,但整體仍保存完好。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 666.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:666.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 666).
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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 = 666,
title = {{Mogao Cave 17: Thousand-Armed, Thousand-Eyed Avalokitesvara}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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