带八个神圣梵语音节的Monju Bosatsu - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	带八个神圣梵语音节的Monju Bosatsu
品名（英）	Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables
入馆年号	1912年，12.134.15
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1334 - 公元 1392
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	整体: 40 7/8 x 25 1/8 英寸 (103.8 x 63.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	智慧的菩萨Monju（梵语：Manjushri）坐在狮子身上，靠着一只边缘有火焰的卵形灵兽。他戴着一顶饰有八尊微型佛像的王冠，手持一把剑和一朵长茎莲花，支撑着一把起源于印度武器的金刚叉器具。在菩萨的其他表现形式中，蒙珠莲通常支持佛经，但在这里金刚是智慧的象征。蒙朱周围环绕着八个梵语种子音节，或象征着八个守护青年的神圣话语），来自一个召唤他的咒语。这幅画的上半部分刻着一首赞美蒙朱的诗句，日期是1371年冬天到来的第二天。上面写着："过去，你是龙须菩萨，将来，你将成为佛祖福肯，七佛的族长，产生智慧的母亲，蒙朱大师！"这幅画本应用于抵御自然灾害的仪式，据说属于京都附近的Daigoji寺庙。
介绍（英）	Monju (Sanskrit: Manjushri), the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, is seated on a lion against an ovoid nimbus edged with flames. He wears a crown decorated with eight miniature Buddhas and holds a sword and a long stemmed lotus flower supporting a vajra—a pronged implement with origins in Indian weaponry. In other manifestations of the bodhisattva, Monju’s lotus typically supports a Buddhist scripture, but here the vajra is an emblem of wisdom. Monju is surrounded by eight Sanskrit seed syllables, or sacred utterances symbolizing the eight guardian youths) from a mantra invoking him. Inscribed in the upper part of the painting is a verse praising Monju, dated to 1371 on the day following the arrival of winter. It says, “In the past, you were the bodhisattva Ryūshu, and in the future, you will become the Buddha Fuken, the patriarch of the Seven Buddhas, the mother who gives rise to wisdom [the Buddha], Great Master Monju!” The painting would have been used in rituals performed for the purpose of warding off natural disasters, and is said to have belonged to the temple Daigoji near Kyoto.