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fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品
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The open eyes on the palms, sole of feet, and center of the 北京宮廷，漢藏風格。白度母又稱「七眼佛母」，密宗修行中非常重要的
forehead show the goddess’s active awareness and compassionate 女尊，是觀世音菩薩慈悲的化身。面相生動傳神，肌膚細膩圓潤，豐胸
engagement with the entirety of the universe; Tara sees and 細腰，猶如少女般的婀娜，佛教經典也把她描述成美麗少女的形象，象
alleviates the suffering of all sentient beings. 徵白度母作為眾神之母的高貴和慈悲造像通體鎏金，選材考究，冶煉技術
Compare to a very similar gilt-bronze figure of White Tara holding 嫺熟。花冠、瓔珞、衣紋及蓮花瓣的雕刻精細，工藝水準極高，而且整體
lotus sprays in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Classics 裝飾華麗，相貌雍容華貴，符合清代皇室所追求的審美情趣，因此很可能
of the Forbidden City: Tibetan Buddhist Sculptures, Beijing, 2012, 為宮廷造辦處之作品。相似作品可參考北京故宮博物院館藏的清宮舊藏銅
p. 232, no. 139 (fig. 1), dated to the later half of the 17th century to 鎏金白度母，著錄於《故宮經典：藏傳佛教造像》，北京，2012 年，頁
early 18th century, and possibly made by the Imperial Workshop in 232 ，圖版編號 139（圖一），二者藝術表現手法和工藝水準極為相似。
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