Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara
Sandstone
十一面觀音菩薩像
中國
十一面觀音為密教六觀音之一，別名大光普照觀音。此尊為唐代（618～907）所遺存的菩薩胸像之一。
菩薩頭綰高髻，髮紋雕刻細密逼真。頭上的十面造型各異，分三層表現，除底層六面其中左右兩面為菩薩相外，其餘八面均呈忿怒相。菩薩面相豐腴飽滿，彎眉直鼻，雙目細長，目光微微下視，嘴角內收。身佩精美的瓔珞、寶珠、項飾及臂釧，形體飽滿健碩，胸部及雙臂以下雖已損毀，然仍可見唐代風韻。
依此尊胸像尺寸推測，本作品應為量體可觀的大型造像。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 311.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:311.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 311).
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