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Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda - Arhat and Heavenly King

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Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda - Arhats

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Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda - Arhats

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Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda - Arhats

刺繡十六羅漢圖

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清宮舊藏。八開,本色緞地,彩繡天王及羅漢像。首開右頁為西方廣目天王,持盤龍長矛,其旁南方增長天王,手握寶劍。左頁為東方持國天王,手持琵琶,旁北方多聞天王,雙手持寶傘。此四天王為帝釋之外將,佛教的護法神,均作戴寶冠、著甲胄,項披戰巾、足蹬戰靴的古代武將裝束,形色各異,威武驍勇。第二開右頁為韋馱天,乃南方增長天王八將之一,居四天王下三十二將之首,作武將裝束,雙手交疊放在金剛杵上,杵尖支地,戰盔上紅纓飄舞,更顯威風凜凜。
 其次依序彩繡十六羅漢,或單人成幅,或兩人一組,或立或坐,姿態各異。據玄奘譯《法住記》說十六羅漢受佛敕,常住人間,以普度眾生。
 作者構思巧妙,僅取各人物故事中生動、典型的片段加以表現,線條細膩不繁,形象生動傳神。此冊人物眾多,繡工多元,使用齊針、滾針、套針、釘針、平金、刻鱗針、網繡、纏針等多種針法,並運用色絲間暈與覆彩渲染相結合的手法,增添繪、繡結合栩栩如生的藝術效果。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 251.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 251.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:251.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Qing Imperial Palace: Embroidery of the Sixteen Arhats, Four Heavenly Kings, and Skanda. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 251).
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