敦煌绘画中的盘花图像初探

A Preliminary Study of Flowers Images on a Plate in Dunhuang Painting

鲜花供养是佛教诸多供养中最常见的形式。在敦煌壁画、纸画、绢画中,除手持折枝花卉和瓶花供养外,还描绘了大量手持盘中花卉供养的图像,并以莲花为主,兼有部分牡丹和其它花卉。不仅集中体现了盘花在佛教供养中的重要地位,而且传递了手持盘花在各时期的造型变化和图像源流,值得关注。

Flower providing is the most common form of Buddhist support.In Dunhuang murals,Ppaper paintings and silk paintings,in addition to holding flowers and vase Flowers for support,a large number of images of holding flowers in the dish for support are also depicted.It not only embodies the important posi⁃t ion of discoid flower in Buddhism,but also conveys the shape change and image source of hand-held dis⁃c oid flower in different periods,which is worthy of attention.