两件夏侯纯陀造像的信仰、风格与源流探究——甘肃馆藏佛教造像研究之五

A Study on the Faith, Style, and Origin of the Two Stelae Made by Xiahou Cunda——A Study on the Buddhist Steles of Gansu （Ⅴ）

甘肃省博物馆和西安碑林博物馆各藏一北周天和四年佛教造像碑,两件造像碑发愿文相同,显示为夏侯佛陀雕造。前者正面为观音菩萨立像,后者为四面单体造像碑,上雕佛、弟子、菩萨和供养人等形象,它们的造像形式是天和年间佛教造像样式的例证,经考证,二者的来源地应为渭北耀县一带。

Both Gansu Provincial Museum and Xi’an Beilin Museum have a Buddhist-image stele made in the fourth year of the Tianhe era during the Northern Zhou dynasty.The votive texts of both stelae are the same,indicating that they were made by the same person.The front of the former stele shows the image of a standing Avalokitesvara where as the second is a four-sided stele with carved images of the Buddha,Buddha’s disciples,Bodhisattvas,and donors.The figures depicted by these two artifacts bears witness to the style of Buddhist imagery in the Tianhe era.A study on these two stelae suggests that they should have derived from the area of what is currently Yao County in Weibei,Shanxi Province.