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Maitreya Bodhisattva

Ink and color on cotton

彌勒菩薩像

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菩薩頭戴山形高冠,面相長圓,細彎眉,柳葉眼,唇若櫻桃,頭頸微向左側。豐胸細腰,袒上身,帔帛繞雙臂垂於兩側。右手舉於胸前結印,左手叉於腰際,身軀微扭,雙足著繩鞋外展呈「一」字形,立於束腰仰覆蓮台上,姿態曼妙大方。上身和下裙飾珠寶瓔珞,佩大耳璫,臂、腕、足踝佩釧,華美而不失端嚴。圓形頭光和蓮瓣形身光相連,上方繪祥雲。蓮台兩側各伸展出一株長莖蓮花,花朵盛開於菩薩兩肩側,上置法輪和寶瓶。全圖以墨色為主,突顯出菩薩金色的肌膚和紅唇。
 此圖菩薩的飾物屬尼泊爾風格,寶冠上飾藏式佛塔,菩薩像背後的祥雲則與宋代(960~1279)以來的佛經卷首圖藍、黑等深色背景裝飾手法相似。全圖描金彩繪,推測此作約完成於元代(1271~1368)初期。

For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, page 500.

Cite this article:

Hsingyun, et al. "Maitreya Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, vol. 15, 2016, pp. 500.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Maitreya Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O, 15:500.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Maitreya Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting I-O (Vol. 15, pp. 500).
@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 = 500,
title = {{Maitreya Bodhisattva}},
volume = 15,
year = {2016}}


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