A bronze seated figure of Vairocana, Tibet, 14th century | 十四世紀 藏傳銅毗盧遮那佛坐像

Galerie Koller, Zurich, 20th / 21st November 1992, lot 15.

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Koller藝廊，蘇黎世，1992年11月20-21日，編號15

The Tathagata displays the hand gestures of supreme enlightenment (bodhyagri mudra) and is seated on a lotus pedestal in the yogic meditation posture (vajraparyankasana), and adorned with regal jewellery. The tall crown and towering chignon (jatamukuta) topped with a flaming jewel (ratna) recall the eastern Indian Pala period (8th-12th c) traditions that influenced the central Tibetan styles up to around the fourteenth century: cf. the fourteenth century central Tibetan Vairochana in the Berti Aschmann Collection at Rietberg Museum, in Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightenment, Zürich, 1995, cat. no. 25. Vairochana is regarded as a universal aspect of the Buddha and is the central figure of the Five Tathagatas, the meditation Buddhas. 

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此尊毗盧遮那佛打「菩提頂印」，採「金剛跏趺坐」端坐於蓮花座，身佩寶飾。其高冠與頂髻上飾有火焰形寶珠，此風格可追溯至印度東部帕拉時期（八至十二世紀），其持續影響至十四世紀藏中地區。可比較另一尊十四世紀藏中毗盧遮那佛，於瑞士蘇黎世瑞特柏格博物館Berti Aschmann收藏中，詳見Uhlig著作《通往覺悟之路》，蘇黎世，1995年，圖版25。毗盧遮那佛為佛陀之普遍象徵，並居於五方佛的中央，為禪定佛之中心形象。