Yarhu: Heavenly Being
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天人像
新疆維吾爾自治區吐魯番市交河故城佛教遺址出土
新疆維吾爾自治區吐魯番市雅爾湖故城佛教遺址出土。此像雙臂高舉，僅餘半身，手及前臂已佚。全身塗青色顏料，髮呈「S」形卷曲，以橘紅色描繪，眉棱高挑，眉與眼瞼皆以墨筆勾勒，鼻小而尖聳，嘴角含笑，面頰豐潤，大耳長垂，帔帛繞肩，並以土黃色調描繪出胸前瓔珞。此種彩塑表現形式一般用於鬼神造像，但此尊並無獠牙等猙獰特徵，面容親切且富朝氣，乃西域男子之傳神寫照。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1403.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Yarhu: Heavenly Being." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1403.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Yarhu: Heavenly Being" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1403.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Yarhu: Heavenly Being. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1403).
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