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530 A RARE FOUR-SIDED STONE 唐咸亨（公元670-674年） 石灰岩雕四面造像碑
BUDDHIST STELE
來源
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
大阪藤田美術館珍藏，入藏於1940年前。
One side is carved with Buddha Shakyamuni seated on a lotus throne within
a niche, with his right hand raised in abhaya mudra and his head backed by a 展覽
nimbus. He is fanked by his two disciples, Ananda and Kashyapa, as well as
a pair of bodhisattvas and dvarapalas. Below the Buddha crouches a dwarf 大阪，藤田美術館，《中國繪畫と文房具》，1983年春。
and a pair of lions, and below that there is a band of seated Buddhas. Set 大阪市立美術館，《中国の石仏 : 荘厳なる祈り》，1995年10月10日至11月26
above the lintel of the niche is a stupa with a reliquary vase at center fanked 日。
by a pair of apsaras fying with streaming ribbons. The reverse is carved with
Maitreya Buddha at the center, his feet resting on diminutive lotus blossoms, 文獻
fanked by devotees and bodhisattvas, with lions below, all set within a niche
below the canopy of a large Bodhi Tree. The narrow sides are carved with 《藤田美術館名品圖錄》，藤田美術館，東京，1972年，編號209-212。
seated Buddhas within niches. All four sides are carved with inscriptions, 《中国の石仏 : 荘厳なる祈り》，大阪市立美術館，1995年，124頁，編號146。
including parts of the Heart Sutra, names of donors and a portion of a date, 孫 迪，《中國 流 失 海 外 佛 教 造 像 總 合 圖 錄》，第 6 卷，北 京，2 0 0 5 年，12 0 0頁。
possibly corresponding to the Xianheng reign (AD 670-674) of the Gaozong
Emperor of the Tang dynasty. 石灰岩製，碑四面開龕造像。碑首刻寶塔，兩側刻飛天於祥雲之上，碑陽開一帷
幕華飾龕，内浮雕以跏趺坐佛為主尊的一鋪七尊造像，龕左右刻發願文及造像
26º in. (66.8 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box 人題名，主龕下開四小龕，各雕坐佛於蓮花座上，小龕下方刻有《般若波羅蜜多
心經》。碑陰上刻龍華樹，中央開龕，内浮雕以彌勒佛坐像為主尊的五尊像，龕
$120,000-180,000 左右刻發願文及造像人題名「佛弟子賈行」，下方刻題記有「大唐咸□嵗次鶉火
七月」紀年。碑兩側各開三小龕雕坐佛於蓮花座上。
PROVENANCE
唐代有咸亨、咸通兩個帶咸字的年號，此通造像碑為初唐風格，當為唐高宗李治
Fujita Museum, Osaka, acquired prior to 1940. 咸亨年間（670-674年）所作。值得一提的是，碑陽下方所刻《般若波羅蜜多心
經》為三藏法師玄奘（602-664年）譯本。作此碑時去玄奘法師新譯《心經》不
EXHIBITED 過二十餘年，而其已有取代姚秦鳩摩羅什（344-413年）舊譯本之勢，可見影響
之大。玄奘法師譯本《心經》直到今天都是流通最廣的版本，而此通造像作爲鐫
Osaka, Fujita Museum, Chinese Painting and Scholars Objects Exhibition, 刻有這一版本《心經》的早期實例殊爲難得。
Spring, 1983.
Osaka Municipal Museum, Chinese Buddhist Stone Sculpture: Veneration of 唐咸亨年（西暦 670-674 年） 石灰岩造宝塔四面
the Sublime, 1995, 10th October- 26th November 1995. 仏碑像

L I T E R AT U R E

Masterpieces in The Fujita Museum of Art, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, 1972,
nos. 209-212.
Chinese Buddhist Stone Sculpture: Veneration of the Sublime, Osaka
Municipal Museum, 1995, p. 124, no. 146.
Sun Di, Zhonguo liu shi hai fo jiao xiang zong he tu mu (Comprehensive
Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections),
vol. 6, Beijing, 2005, no. 1200.

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