《阿弥陀经》一节 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	《阿弥陀经》一节
品名（英）	Section of The Amitabha Sutra
入馆年号	2019年，2019.420.1
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unidentified
创作年份	公元 1234 - 公元 1266
创作地区
分类	书法（Calligraphy）
尺寸	图像: 8 1/16 × 83 7/16 英寸 (20.5 × 212 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 11 13/16 × 94 7/8 英寸 (30 × 241 厘米)
介绍（中）	《阿弥陀经》（梵文：Sukhavativyuha Sutra）是描述阿弥陀佛美丽的净土天堂的两部大乘佛教经典之一，以金银墨水交替的方式刻在一张反复浸泡在深蓝色靛蓝染料中的纸上，旨在类似于珍贵青金石的颜色。这种抄写方式从十二世纪到十四世纪很流行，当时富有的赞助人委托制作如此丰富的佛经卷轴作为寺庙的祭品，以期获得精神上的功德。人们普遍认为，复制神圣文本可以提高一个人获得救赎的机会，赞助人为艺术家提供昂贵而有价值的材料，而不是复制文本本身。一旦它们被奉献给寺庙，这种质量的卷轴就被存放在显宗宝库中，很少使用;因此它们保存完好。
介绍（英）	The Amida Sutra (Sanskrit: Sukhavativyuha Sutra), one of two Mahayana Buddhist scriptural texts that describe the beautiful Pure Land paradise of Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha) Buddha, was inscribed in alternating lines of gold and silver inks on a paper repeatedly soaked in a dark blue indigo dye intended to resemble the color of precious lapis lazuli. This style of sutra transcription was popular from the twelfth through the fourteenth century, when wealthy patrons commissioned richly executed sutra scrolls such as this as offerings to temples, in the hope of gaining spiritual merit. It was a commonly held belief that the copying of sacred texts improved one’s chance to achieve salvation, and patrons supplied artists with expensive and valuable materials with which to work, in lieu of copying the texts themselves. Once they had been dedicated to a temple, scrolls of this quality were stored in sutra repositories and rarely used; hence their survival in good condition.