Maitreya Buddha and Attendants
Gilt bronze
比丘法亮造彌勒佛三尊像
中國
此作品為鎏金銅版鑄造像，畫面呈方形。主尊彌勒高肉髻，面相長圓，內著僧祇支，外披袒右袈裟，衣紋細密繁縟。右手上舉施無畏印，結跏趺坐於疊澀式方形台座上。北魏時代（386～534）罕見這種跏趺坐姿的彌勒像。
彌勒身後有二重頭光及火焰紋背光，上方有飛天輕托寶蓋。彌勒像兩側各有立姿脇侍菩薩及胡跪供養人，銅版造像下方有壯碩的地神承托佛座，形成整組作品的基座。基座最下方刻發願文「和平元年（460）比丘法亮為父母造彌勒像願與一切眾生□成佛道」。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 671.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Buddha and Attendants." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 671.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Maitreya Buddha and Attendants" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:671.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Maitreya Buddha and Attendants. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 671).
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