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The present figure is closely related to a larger figure of standing
Maitreya presented to the Qing court as a gift from the Dalai
Lama, illustrated in Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected
in the Qing Palace, Forbidden City Press, 1992, p. 68, no. 40
(fig. 2). Compare also to a group of eight figures of
Avalokitesvara similar in style in the collection of Chengde
Palace, illustrated in Buddhist Art from Rehol, Tibetan Buddhist
Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty Summer Palace at
Chengde, Taipei, 1999, pp. 70-73.
菩薩塑像優雅，慈眉善目，赤足安立，左手施觸地印，右手則持蓮
蕾上舉至肩。頂有肉髻，頭戴五葉花冠，髮綹披肩，雙眼垂視，嘴
帶微笑。身纏眾寶瓔珞，且踏於蓮台法座。光背邊緣錘繞卷草紋樣
一圈，上下沿則飾以細密連珠。手腳及面部見肉泥金。隨此拍品還
附一本1975年布魯塞爾出版A. Neven著的《Lamaistic Art: Exhibition
organised in conjunction with the Nepalese Belgian Friendship, Société
Générale de Banque, Brussels, 15th May-30th June 1975》展覽圖錄。
此尊造像與清宮舊藏一尊較大的彌勒像風格十分相似，見《清宮藏
傳佛教文物》，北京，1992年，頁68，圖版40號（圖二），該尊佛
像附有黃簽，為清代達賴喇嘛進獻給清朝皇帝的貢物。另比較藏於
承德避暑山莊的八尊菩薩造像，見《清宮秘藏：承德避暑山莊藏傳
佛教文物展圖錄》，台北，1999年，頁70至73。

fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖二 北京故宮博物院藏品

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