佛像网

尺寸：83.82 x 46.99 x 26.67 cm
年代：11世纪
质地：片岩石雕
风格：印度 帕拉
来源：洛杉矶艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
这尊姿态优美的造像表现的是未来佛弥勒。他的发髻呈苦行者式样，头冠中有一个小型佛塔（舍利塔），由此可辨识其身份为弥勒。他佩戴着繁复的珠宝，包括从左肩垂下的婆罗门圣线（圣纽）。他以大王游戏坐（maharajalila asana）的姿态安坐于莲花台座上。他的右手（现已缺失）很可能原结 vitarka mudra。左手持那伽花树（铁力木 Mesua ferrea）的一枝花茎，花蕊中有一个盛放长生甘露的小瓶。他的右足搁在一座突出的莲台上，左足底有妙相（lakshana）。

一尊与之成对的观世音菩萨像现藏于波士顿美术博物馆（馆藏号 63.418）。它们原本应共同胁侍于一尊更大的佛像两侧。

Maitreya, the Buddha of the future, is represented in this graceful image. He has an ascetic’s piled hair with a miniature stupa (funerary monument) in his headdress that identifies him as Maitreya. He wears copious jewelry, including the Brahmanical sacred thread (yajnopavita) worn over his left shoulder. He is seated on a lotus base in the posture of royal ease (maharajalila asana). His right hand (now missing) was likely held in the gesture of discourse (vitarka mudra). His left hand holds a flowering stalk of the nagakeshara tree (Mesua ferrea) with a diminutive vessel containing the elixir of immortality in the flower head. His right foot rests on a projecting lotus pedestal. The sole of his left foot is graced with a sacred marking (lakshana).

A companion image of Avalokiteshvara is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (63.418). Together they would have originally flanked a larger Buddha image.

来源:
From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase

著录:
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