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This superb sculpture of a crowned Buddha Shakyamuni is 釋迦牟尼佛坐像，光燦輝耀，威嚴尊貴，展現中世紀時，
a testament to the powerful legacy of the Newari aesthetic 自尼泊爾傳入的內瓦爾造像風格。本像鎏金厚實，造形雄
imported into Tibet from the Kathmandu Valley in the medieval 闊有力，華冠纓絡雅緻，細節精確俐落，佛面供施泥金，
period. Displaying tremendous power and presence, this figure
綴彩料，鑲嵌寶石，源自西藏、尼泊爾二處雕塑傳統。
demonstrates the marriage of classical Nepalese and Tibetan
sculptural elements in its luxuriant gilding, elegant beading and 釋迦牟尼佛作觸地印，象徵修行成道之刻。本像寬額、髮
engraving, the cold gilding of the face and use of polychromy,
and delicate use of inlay of semi-precious stones. 際線直、肉髻圓尖鎏金、白毫嵌寶、短頸、肩背寬厚，上
軀下斂至腰，皆得尼泊爾造像風格影響。
This powerful and iconic bronze depicting Buddha Shakyamuni
in the earth-touching gesture or bhumisparsha mudra recalls
比較十四世紀西藏，尼泊爾派所作造像，衣袍垂落右臂，
the moment of his Enlightenment, in which he called upon
左肩裸露之姿、細緻邊紋、衣褶，類同本品，刊於烏爾里
the earth as his witness. The Nepalese influence is strongly
demonstrated in the wide forehead with straight hairline, the 希．馮．施羅德，《西藏佛教雕塑》，卷2，香港，2001
gilt domed ushnisha, inlaid urna, the short neck, the broad and 年，頁962-3，編號231A、231C。
muscular shoulders with torso narrowing to a defined waist.
Compare the elegant hem, drape and twist of the Buddha’s
sanghati along the upper arm and body with left shoulder
exposed, with fourteenth century bronzes from the Nepalese
school in Tibet, see. Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures
in Tibet, vol. II, Hong Kong, 2001, pp. 962-3, figs 231A and
231C.

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