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品名（中）	金刚手菩萨
品名（英）	Vajrapani
入馆年号	2016年，2016.241
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 567 - 公元 699
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 9 英寸 (22.9 厘米); 高 inc. base 10 1/4 英寸 (26 厘米); 宽 5 3/8 英寸 (13.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个强大的雕像最好理解为大乘菩萨金刚手，他挪用了吠陀风暴神因陀罗的闪电权杖（Skt：vajra），并重新利用了它。它的意义从与风暴（例如季风）的生命肯定力量有关，转移到佛教救世主金刚手，他促进启蒙之路的旅程，并帮助清晰的思想像闪电一样穿透力。在大克什米尔世界已知最早的表示中，双头霹雳符号非常大，其轴延伸了金刚手雕像的长度。除了带有独特叉子的巨大装置外，菩萨还持有念珠（aksamala）。他的脸有些磨损，但胡子的痕迹仍然存在，他戴着一个独特的头饰，上面戴着一个精致的帽徽，上面挂着一串珍珠，从中间伸出来，古普塔式的。正面显示的大型环形耳塞，也属于已知的Gupta类型。他戴着神圣的绳索（yanopavita）和短腰布，腰带上固定着一把带鞘的匕首。他举起的左手握着超大的金刚，他的头被一个大而朴素的圆形光晕框住。
介绍（英）	This powerful figurine is best understood as the Mahayana bodhisattva Vajrapani, who appropriated the lighting-bolt scepter (Skt: vajra) of Indra, the Vedic storm god, and repurposed it. Its meaning shifted from that being associated with the life-affirming power of storms (e.g. the monsoons), to the Buddhist savior Vajrapani, who facilitates journeying the path of enlightenment and aiding crystal clear thought as penetrating as a lighting strike. In this, among the earliest representations known from the greater Kashmir world, the double-ended thunderbolt symbol is imposingly large, the shaft of which extends the length of Vajrapani’s figure. In addition to the massive device with its distinctive prongs, the bodhisattva holds a rosary (aksamala). His face is somewhat abraded but traces of a moustache remain, and he wears a distinctive headdress of an elaborate cockade with hanging strings of pearls disgorging from the center, in the Gupta-manner. Large annular earplugs, also of known Gupta type, are shown frontally. He wears a sacred cord (yanopavita) and short waist cloth with a sheathed dagger secured in the belt. In his raised proper left hand he holds the oversized vajra, and his head is framed by a large unadorned circular halo.