Ruiguang Temple Pagoda: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
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Ruiguang Temple Pagoda: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
觀音菩薩像
江蘇省蘇州市瑞光寺塔第三層天宮發現
一九七八年江蘇省蘇州市瑞光寺塔第三層天宮發現。觀音頭戴鑲嵌寶珠的三葉冠，高髮髻，面龐豐腴，眉眼細長，有白毫，面容慈祥。佩雙圈項鍊，瓔珞自雙肩下垂，於腹前交叉呈「X」狀，沿雙膝繞於身後，手臂、手腕佩釧，雙手屈舉，掌心向上，呈說法狀。趺坐於圓形台座承托的高束腰仰覆蓮座上，仰蓮寬大多層，覆蓮細密。圓形頭光外圈及背光飾透雕火焰紋，兩相重疊，然背光已殘缺一角。後面有紙質墨書「唐氏三娘」四字。
同該處出土的另一尊造型相仿的菩薩像雙臂殘缺，考察發現，雙臂係主體鑄造完成後插入。圓形頭光飾以蓮花，蓮瓣形背光有一圈寶相花，後有墨書「永大師」三字。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 883.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Ruiguang Temple Pagoda: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 883.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Ruiguang Temple Pagoda: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:883.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Ruiguang Temple Pagoda: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 883).
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