佛像网

尺寸：8.2 x 6.1 cm
年代：11-12世纪
质地：石雕(stone)
风格：东北印度 帕拉
来源：克利夫兰艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness
1000-1100s
Northern India, Bihar, 11th-12th century

中央主尊表现的是释迦牟尼佛证悟成道的时刻。佛陀结跏趺坐于菩提树下，作触地印，召请大地见证其降伏魔军与妖女的功业。拱形浮雕中魔众溃散之象环拥佛座，却未侵扰圣像分毫。

主尊周围即刻呈现佛陀证道后七日间的微小化现。饰板外缘浮雕佛陀生平七大重要事件：左侧自上而下为诞生、初转法轮、调服醉象；右侧自上而下为猕猴献蜜、舍卫城现神通、三十三天降凡；顶端最高处表现佛陀涅槃。

背面的尼瓦尔语铭文表明，此物是为前往印度圣地的尼泊尔朝圣者所制。类似饰板可见多种语言铭文，印证了各国佛教徒曾跋涉至印度东北部朝圣，并将这些纪念圣物带回故土。

Description
The central image depicts the moment when the historical Buddha Shakyamuni reached enlightenment. He is seated under the Bodhi tree and gestures to the earth to witness his defeat of the demons and seductresses who seem to dissipate in the arched carving above him, not touching his enthroned figure.

Immediately surrounding the central icon are diminutive images of the Buddha during the seven days after enlightenment. Around the periphery of the plaque are depictions of seven other key events from his life story: birth, first sermon, and subjugation of the mad elephant on the viewer’s left side; reception of the monkey’s gift of honey, miracle at Shravasti, descent from the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods on the right; and, at the apex, his death, or parinirvana.

A prayer inscribed in the Newari language on the back indicates that this object was made for a pilgrim from Nepal to a sacred site in India. Similar plaques have been found with inscriptions in a variety of languages, which suggests that Buddhists traveled from many countries to northeastern India and brought these souvenir tokens back with them. Hide Inscriptions

Inscription
Inscription on back in Newari script of the 12th Century. Translation by P. Pal: at the top: Om muni muni mahamuni Shakyamunya svaha (Hail to the sage, the sage, the great sage Shakya) below: Buddhist formula: Ye dharma hetu prabhava hetu tesam tathagata hya vadat Of all dispositions proceeding from a cause, the Tathagata has explained the cause (and he has explained their cessation also. This is a doctrine of the great Sramana.)

Provenance
purchased from a Belgian collection

Exhibition history
Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245); July 2, 2014
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 5, 1986).