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Bihar: Illustrated Manuscript - Life of the Buddha

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印度比哈爾邦出土

印度比哈爾邦(Bihar)出土,為《般若經》貝葉經的插圖。此經已散佚,現僅存一頁,此頁高6.4公分,長54.9公分,中央和兩側分別彩繪舍衛城神變、佛陀自忉利天返人間和樹下誕生等佛傳故事。
 中央舍衛城神變圖中,佛陀螺髮,肉髻尖聳,現白毫相。輪廓鮮明,身色金黃,著通肩大紅田相紋袈裟,作轉法輪印,結跏趺坐於蓮座上。頭光和身光交疊邊緣竄出火焰,身光緣飾聯珠紋。其身後兩側各有一尊坐佛,造型和印相與之相同,代表佛陀化現千身。
 左側佛陀自忉利天返人間情景,並非常見的佛陀、帝釋天和梵天組合,而是描繪帝釋天、濕婆和毗濕奴護送佛陀。佛陀著田相紋袈裟,雙手結印,側身而立。右側帝釋天黃色身相,全身布滿天眼,一如經典描述其有千眼。左側白色身相者為濕婆,袒上身,下身裹虎皮,現苦行相;其旁毗濕奴四臂,藍色身相,戴寶冠瓔珞,繫腰布。
 右側樹下誕生圖繪摩耶夫人三屈而立,手攀無憂樹,悉達多太子同時出現在其右脇和右足側,分別顯示太子降誕及出生未幾,即口訴宣言、七步生蓮的情節,此一圖二景,展現了印度傳統藝術獨特的表現手法。畫面左側帝釋天擎華蓋侍立於太子身旁,虛空中落英繽紛,瀰漫祥瑞之兆。
 貝葉兩個燙孔處均巧妙地飾一莖蓮花,上有菩薩趺坐。這些插畫構圖充實,人物造型生動,線條流暢,色澤飽滿,點描微細,堪稱波羅王朝(Pala,約8~12世紀)的佛教藝術精粹。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, page 104.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Bihar: Illustrated Manuscript - Life of the Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 104.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Bihar: Illustrated Manuscript - Life of the Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H, 14:104.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Bihar: Illustrated Manuscript - Life of the Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H (Vol. 14, pp. 104).
@misc{Hsingyun2016,
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Youlu and Wilson, Graham and Manho and Mankuang and Huntington, Susan,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting A-H},
pages = 104,
title = {{Bihar: Illustrated Manuscript - Life of the Buddha}},
volume = 14,
year = {2016}}


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