Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries
Glass and gold
琉璃舍利瓶
陝西省西安市鐵佛寺塔基出土
陝西省西安市鐵佛寺塔基出土。十至十一世紀舍利容器。舍利瓶為琉璃質，身呈長方柱體，圓肩，長頸，平底，通體素面無紋。圓形瓶口上有半球形白石蓋鈕。出土時舍利瓶置於盒內。
盒為金質，長方柱體，蓋呈盝頂式。盒身鐫刻銘文「女弟子揚氏王氏捨／葬釋迦佛舍利願／与一切眾生早成佛果」。瓶內納藏琉璃、瑪瑙及舍利。
琉璃舍利瓶原屬於伊斯蘭教典型的器皿，為中東地區的化妝顏料收納容器。在西域國《朝貢品名目》中記載，原為裝眼藥的容器，後轉為收藏舍利之用。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 336.
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Hsingyun, et al. "Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 336.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:336.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Tiefo Temple Pagoda: Nested Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 336).
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