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Stages of the Path Game

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次第道遊戲圖

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此為西藏盛行的僧人遊戲圖,藉由遊戲過程中讓僧人熟悉經典。此類作品一般由上至下分為天界、人界及地獄三界。人界與地獄界的小圖都標示了路徑與文字,遊戲人數不限,輪流擲骰,骰子共六面,每面寫一字,與圖上的文字相對,來決定前進或後退,先到天宮者為勝。
 畫面上部天界表現金剛總持與他所處的天宮淨土,其左右有兩位僧人,後面是高大的建築,遠處是山巒疊翠。該圖為格魯派的唐卡,因此最上方天界繪格魯派的根本上師金剛總持,其兩側是戴紅帽的印度阿底峽尊者與戴黃帽的西藏宗喀巴(tsong kha pa)大師,兩人分別是噶當派和格魯派的重要師祖;前者傳入許多印度的重要教法,後者是該派的創立者。
 其下方的兩列小方格與大量的圓形小圖是人界與地獄界。兩列方格內的圖像,表現各大高僧說法的形象。圓形小圖為八行八列蓮花,占畫面的五分之三;每朵蓮花內表現一個主題畫面,有佛、菩薩、祖師像以及天王像。
 畫面不同於常見的唐卡布局,意在說明宗教境界的遞進關係。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, page 871.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Stages of the Path Game." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, vol. 16, 2016, pp. 871.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Stages of the Path Game" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, 16:871.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Stages of the Path Game. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z (Vol. 16, pp. 871).
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author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youlu and Wilson, Graham and Manho and Mankuang and Huntington, Susan,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z},
pages = 871,
title = {{Stages of the Path Game}},
volume = 16,
year = {2016}}


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