阿尔寨石窟第31窟十一面千手千眼观音图像研究

摘要

This paper is an iconographic analysis of the eleven-headed with thousand hands and eyes Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Cave 31 of A'erzhai Grottoes. With a comparative study of its counterparts in the iconographies of traditional Han Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, the author tentatively illustrates the stylistic features of the iconography of the eleven-headed with thousand hands and eyes Avalokitesvara in A'erzhai Cave 31. The author identifies the head arrangements of the Avalokitesvara in A'erzhai Cave 31 with Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Based on the study of the characteristics of the costumes and adornments of this specific Avalokitesvara painting in Cave 31 as well as the studies of the features of the costumes, adornments and the peculiarities of the head cloth of the Mongolian donor images in the same cave, the painting date of this particular Avalokitesvara back to Northern Yuan period.%将阿尔寨石窟第31窟十一面千手千眼观音图与汉传佛教十一面千手千眼观音图像和藏传佛教十一面千手千眼观音图像进行对比, 发现阿尔寨石窟第31窟壁画中的十一面千手千眼观音图像呈现出不同的风格特征.从而认为阿尔寨石窟第31窟十一面千手千眼观音图像的头部排列样式应是藏传佛教系统.再从阿尔寨石窟第31窟十一面千手千眼观音的服饰特点、所绘蒙古族供养人服饰特点、所绘幞头等特征来判断, 此观音像的绘制年代应是北元时期.