Vaishravana，佛教守护者和财富保护者 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Vaishravana，佛教守护者和财富保护者
品名（英）	Vaishravana, Guardian of Buddhism and Protector of Riches
入馆年号	2021年，2021.290
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1400 - 公元 1433
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 32 × 29 1/8 英寸 (81.3 × 73.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	毗湿婆那是一个复杂的佛教神，体现了许多思想和信仰。西藏人把他理解为与北方相关的四大方向守护者（lokapalas）中的首要人物。在这个角色中，他是佛教法律的保护者（护法院）。在这里，我们看到瓦伊什拉瓦纳在暴风雨的气氛中坐在他的雪狮山上，他的将军们，八位马领主（asvapati）陪伴着他，每一位都骑着风暴云。中心是Vaishravana本人，占主导地位的是规模，代表着从混乱的天空景观中出现。他穿着一身战斗盔甲，穿着一件有图案的束腰外衣，让人联想到链甲，肩上戴着一块巨大的菱形胸板，胸板上有珍珠和莲花徽章，肩上有中国风格的狮子脸防护翻领。装饰的高筒靴表明了他与中亚祖先的关系。这个著名的西藏神很少出现在修道院壁画之外，比如分别在14世纪和15世纪的沙鲁和江孜寺。无论是从绘画还是美学角度来看，这幅画都是无与伦比的，它将图像的复杂性巧妙地融入了对这位神的单一连贯的可视化中。
介绍（英）	Vaishravana is a complex Buddhist deity who embodies many strands of thought and belief. Tibetans understand him foremost as the premier of the four guardians of the cardinal directions (lokapalas), associated with the North. In this role he serves as a protector (dharmapala) of Buddhist law. Here we see Vaishravana seated on his snow-lion mount in a stormy atmosphere, accompanied by his generals, the eight Lords of the Horses (asvapati), each riding a storm cloud. Central is Vaishravana himself, dominant is scale and represented emerging from a tumultuous skyscape. He is dressed as a warrior-king in full battle armor with a patterned tunic suggestive of chain-mail armor, mounted with a large lozenge chest-plate with pearl-and-lotus medallion and Chinese-style lion-face protective lappets on the shoulders. Decorated high boots point to his Central Asian ancestral connections. This celebrated Tibetan deity is rarely represented outside of monastery mural programs, such as those seen at Shalu and Gyantse monasteries, in 14th and 15th century respectively. In both pictorial and aesthetic terms, this painting is unrivalled in its sophisticated integration of iconographic complexities into a single coherent visualization of this deity.