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Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter (detail)

法華經普門品卷首圖及插圖

甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟宕泉河東岸小塔發現

一九五九年甘肅省酒泉市敦煌市莫高窟宕泉河東岸小塔發現。《妙法蓮華經》卷七〈觀世音菩薩普門品〉西夏文刻本,經摺裝,經文二百五十六行,二千四百二十三字,共二十六頁,五十一面。以色絹包裹,色絹上的絹帶尾端繫一枚北宋元豐年間(1078~1085)鑄造的銅錢。
 卷首圖為水月觀音,構圖跨二頁。觀音為坐姿,頭戴寶冠,帶頭光,左手按地支撐身軀,右手持念珠,天衣飄逸,有迎風飄動之感。周身有大圓光,圓光下方外緣有雲氣紋,表現觀音自海濤中升起。畫面左上、左下角分別為飛天、男供養人,皆捧盤供養。此圖線條流暢,刻工熟練,為難得的西夏(1032~1227)作品。
 卷首圖以外的其他版面為上、下欄,以橫線相隔。下欄為經文,占版面四分之三;上欄為插圖,計五十四幅,表現〈普門品〉觀音救諸難之情節,繪有天王、羅剎、毒龍、蛇、蠍、刀劍、怨賊、官吏、婦女及兒童等一百六十六身,人物有漢裝及西夏裝束。此作為中國較早的插圖本佛經,具有研究中國版畫的重要價值。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 692.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 692.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:692.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 692).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youlu and Wilson, Graham and Manho and Mankuang and Huntington, Susan,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O},
pages = 692,
title = {{Mogao Caves: Frontispiece and Manuscript of the Lotus Sutra - Universal Gateway Chapter}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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