佛像网

尺寸：Image: 28 7/8 × 23 1/8 in. (73.3 × 58.7 cm)
年代：16世纪, dated 1510–19
质地：唐卡(Distemper on cloth)
风格：尼泊尔
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a Stupa

This is one of the earliest extant images of the rarely represented Buddhist goddess Ushnishavijaya. She embodies a magical spell (dharani) recited by practitioners to reach liberation through the accumulation of merit. The power of multiplication in Buddhist merit making is suggested by the many small stupas (chaityas), which symbolically evoke the donation of one hundred thousand stupas. Multi-armed and multi-headed, Ushnishavijaya, white in color (like the autumn moon), is seated in the central stupa, flanked by red and green bodhisattvas and surrounded by the guardians of the eight directions and representations of Tara. As a manifestation of the Buddha’s head protuberance, or ushnisha, she is associated with wisdom. The lowest register shows the consecration scene during the performance of the Lakshachaitya ritual, the dedication of one hundred thousand stupas.

铭文:
Inscription: Inscribed in Newari: “Consecrated in the year 1510–19 for the donor Sri Jasaraja”

来源:
[ The Zimmerman Family Collection , New York, until 2012, sold to MMA]

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Masterpieces of Tibetan and Nepalese Art: Recent Acquisitions,” September 17, 2013–February 2, 2014.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Arts of Nepal and Tibet: Recent Gifts,” January 16, 2016–January 15, 2017.

著录:
Pal, Pratapaditya. The Arts of Nepal: Painting. Vol. 2. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974, pp. 15, 71, 75, fig. 79.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Nepal, Where the Gods are Young. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society, 1975, cat. no. 47.

Bangdel, Lain S., and Vorwort von Krishna Deva. Nepal, Zweitausendfünfhundert Jahre Nepalesische Kunst. Munich: Paul List, 1987, p. 338, cat. no. 251.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet. Exh. cat. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991, cat. no. 36.