Page 82 - Contenplating the Divie Buddhist Art Christies Hong Kong

fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing fig. 2 Collection of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品 圖二 布達拉宮藏品

2863 Continued
Panjarnata Mahakala is often, but not always, depicted balancing a 大黑天是毗盧遮那佛降魔時呈現出的忿怒相。大黑天梵文音譯為瑪哈噶
baton, Gandhi, in the crooks of his arms, from which all other forms 拉，起源於印度，原為財富之神、戰神，傳入西藏後成為藏傳佛教中護
of Mahakala are thought to emanate. However, even in the absence 法大神。常見有六臂、四臂、二臂三種。此像為銅鎏金兩臂，四肢粗壯，
of the baton, the single-faced, two-armed wrathful deity holding the 肌肉飽滿。大黑天三目圓睜，鬚眉立起，怒目而視。頭戴五骷髏冠，左手
kartri and kapala is unmistakably Panjarnata Mahakala, the ‘Lord 托噶巴拉盌，右手持鉞刀。胸前掛人首項蔓、珠寶瓔珞 , 長蛇裝飾。兩腿
of the Pavilion’. Panjarnata Mahakala is the special protector of the
Hevajra cycle of Tantras in the Sakya School; his iconography and 蹲踞姿勢踩踏屍魔。此造像材質精良 , 寶冠、瓔珞、飄帶、蓮座鑄造精美
rituals are found in the 18th chapter of the Vajra Panjara Tantra, as 繁複，形象怒而不凶，憨態可掬。北京故宮博物院藏一件非常相似的永樂
well as in chapters 25 and 50 of the Mahakala Tantras. 款鐵鎏金大黑天金剛像，著錄於《故宮經典：明永樂宣德文物圖典》，故
宮出版社，2012，頁 247，圖 133（圖一）。另參考布達拉宮珍藏一件
Although the current figure is not inscribed with a reign mark, it 近似的永樂銅鎏金大黑天金剛像，載於《漢傳佛像時代與風格》，北京，
closely relates in style to the imperial gilt-bronze figures of the
Yongle and Xuande periods. Compare with a very similar gilt-iron 2010 年，頁 216，圖 234（圖二）。
figure of Panjaranata Mahakala with a Yongle mark in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the Splendors from the Yongle and
Xuande Reigns of China’s Ming Dynasty: Classics of the Forbidden
City, Beijing, 2012, p.247 no. 133 (fig. 1); and another similar gilt-
bronze figure of Panjaranata Mahakala from the Yongle period in
the Potala Palace, Tibet, illustrated in The Times and the Styles
of Statues of Buddha in Chinese Buddhism, Beijing, 2010, p.216,
fig.234 (fig. 2).

78 Contemplating The Divine – Fine Buddhist Art 正觀自在 — 佛教藝術精品