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品名（中）	大势至菩萨
品名（英）	Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva
入馆年号	1953年，53.130.1
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unidentified artist
创作年份	公元 1667 - 公元 1733
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	81 3/4 x 38 1/2 英寸 (207.6 x 97.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	大约在1900年，法国汉学家保罗·佩利奥特（Paul Pelliot）在北京收购了一大群来自清朝帝国宝库的画作。该组中包括为水地仪式创作的部分绘画，这是一种佛教太平间仪式，旨在拯救所有死者的灵魂，无论是在陆地上还是在海上。这幅画可能来自同一组。作品右上角的漩涡花饰将这里描绘的神灵标识为Mahasthamaprapta（中文Dashizhi），一个菩萨或开悟者，其名字的意思是"获得强大力量的人"。菩萨坐在一顶极其逼真的狮子坐骑上，在一位手持珍珠的女侍从的陪同下，手持一朵莲花的茎，莲花的肩膀上方有两朵花，一朵支撑着一颗珍珠，另一朵支撑着霹雳般的工具（金刚）。他的右手形成了慈善手印。最有可能的是，这幅画将与观世音菩萨（观音）和阿弥陀佛（汨罗）佛的中心图像一起作为三联画的一部分展出。
介绍（英）	About 1900 the French Sinologist Paul Pelliot acquired a large group of paintings in Beijing that had come from a Qing imperial repository. Included in that group was a partial set of paintings that were created for the Water-Land ritual, a Buddhist mortuary ceremony conducted for the salvation of all the souls of the dead, whether on land or at sea. This painting may have come from the same set. A cartouche in the upper right corner of the composition identifies the deity portrayed here as Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizhi, in Chinese), a bodhisattva or enlightened being whose name means "one who has attained great power." Seated on a strikingly realistic lion mount and accompanied by a female attendant bearing a pearl, the bodhisattva holds the stem of a lotus with two blossoms that appear above his shoulders, one supporting a pearl, the other a thunderbolt-like implement (vajra). His right hand forms the mudra for charity. Most likely, this painting would have been displayed as part of a triptych together with an image of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) and a central image of the Amitabha (Miluo) Buddha.