The Three Knife Marks of Chinese Buddhism statues came from a sacred event of statues in Chinese Southern and Northern Dynasties period, which told us that Guanyin undertook the sufferings for human, thus left three wounds, so called the Three Knife Marks. This paper holds that the sacred marks actually refer to the Buddha's three neck lines in shape, which is called silkworm lines of the neck. Many statues created in northern and Southern Dynasties were imitated from the format of the western regions. According to the Archaeological records, some of these statues have possessed neck lines, especially the statue of the Bodhisattva, with one, two or three neck lines. And most common statues are characterized by the three lines pattern. According to the author's research, there has been an important correlation between the Three Knife Marks and silkworm lines. This hypothesis, the author believes, resulted from the sacred narration of the silkworm lines by the Buddhist.
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