莫高窟第14窟十一面观音经变

On Eleven faced Avalokitesvara in Cave 14 the Mogao Grottoes

莫高窟第１４窟十一面观音经变彭金章第１４窟位于莫高窟南区北端，是晚唐时期开凿的一座中型洞窟。分前后室，前室已残，东西残长２．１８米，南北宽４．６米。前室西壁门北存晚唐绘天王一身，南壁为宋绘净土变（残），其余壁面所绘均已模糊不清。通往后室的甬道长１．５...

Cave 14 in the Mogao Grottoes was dug in the period of Late tang.This Articlemainly gives a textual research to the story of the eleven faced Avalokitesvara painedon the south wall of Cave 14.On the picture,the eleven faced Avaloki tesvara is themain image,and on both sides lf it,are 19 little pictures.There are relalions and differ-ence between them.those little pictures were painted according to the Stura Shiyimian-shengzhou xinjing translated by Hsuan Tsan,the famous monk of Tang Dynasty.Besides the eleven faced Avalokitesvara,there also painted other stories lf MantraSact such as stories lf the thousandarmed Avalokitesvara,of thet housand-armed Man-jusri,of the Amoghapasa Avalokitesvara,of the Cintamanicakra and of the Vajra Aval-okitesvara,etc,they represented the flourishing development of the Mantra Sect ofDunhuang in the Late tang Period.But from its preliminary to its flourishing stage,the Mantra Sect had had a long historical experience.