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Phra Buddha Sihing

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悉盈佛坐像

泰國

佛螺髮呈尖錐形,肉髻緩緩隆起,髻頂火焰紋飾以水晶製造。臉頰圓潤,五官精緻,面露恬靜的笑容。肩寬胸厚,腰細腳長。著袒右袈裟,以雙線勾勒出帶狀的衣角摺邊。雙手置於腹前,合攏的手指纖細修長,指尖微翹。半跏趺坐,雙腿平貼於蓮座上形成一直線,足掌扁平,腳趾刻劃清晰。蓮座蓮瓣上排列豎立的雄蕊,頂端圓形的花藥形成一圈聯珠紋,為泰國蘭納泰時期(Lanna Thai,1259~1558)獨有的蓮座設計。
 悉盈佛在泰國被視為歷史悠久之造像,傳說鑄造於二世紀的錫蘭(今斯里蘭卡),其時有三名國王及一名聖者,發願要精確地模造出佛陀的形象,曾親見佛陀的龍王因而化現佛身,供作參照;佛像在錫蘭一千多年後被帶到泰國,輾轉流傳。該像是否即傳說中的悉盈佛,迄今仍具爭議。綜觀其種種造型特徵,如髻頂上活動式的火焰紋飾、尖錐形螺髮、菱角狀嘴唇、帶狀的衣角長及肚臍等,均呈現出泰北地區造像風格,尤其與蘭納泰時期其中一種佛像類型的圖像特徵十分相似;這種類型的佛像製造於一四八七至一五一○年間,故學者認為該像很有可能屬此時期的作品。該像在泰國備受尊崇,今被供奉於曼谷國立博物館內的朴泰沙旺殿(Buddhaisawan Chapel)。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 813.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Phra Buddha Sihing." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 813.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Phra Buddha Sihing" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:813.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Phra Buddha Sihing. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 813).
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author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr},
pages = 813,
title = {{Phra Buddha Sihing}},
volume = 12,
year = {2016}}


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