南京博物院藏彭山陶座佛像考

Research on the Pengshan Pottery-Based Buddha Statue Collected by Nanjing Museum

现藏南京博物院的彭山佛像是首见于陶座的佛像,其座并非摇钱树座,过去研究对该佛像的引用和描述错误甚多。其年代应为东汉晚期,而非蜀汉。彭山佛像图像志来源融合了犍陀罗和秣菟罗特征,并对长江中下游地区和日本早期佛像的图像志产生了影响。

The Pengshan Buddha Statue collected by Nanjing Museum is the first one to be seen posi- tioned on a pottery pedestal. The previous studies had misdescription on this statue. This article argues that the shape of the pedestal is not referring to a pagoda tree and the age of this statue should be late Eastern Han instead of the period of Shuhan. The imaging of this statue combined characteristics of Gandhara and Mathura and had influence on the early Buddhist images of China＇ s middle and lower reaches of the Yang- tze River and Japan.