尺寸：13 x 8.9 cm
年代：8世纪
质地：象牙(Ivory with gold and polychrome)
风格：克什米尔
来源：克利夫兰艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
释迦在成道前, 曾受到恶魔的恐吓和女人的引诱, 但释迦仍然保持平静和坚定的信念.

Temptation of Buddha by the Evil Forces of Mara
700s
Northern India, Kashmir, 8th century

Intimate shrines for personal meditation practices contained scenes from the life of the Buddha. In an episode just prior to his achievement of enlightenment, the Buddha sat in meditation and faced personifications of the final obstacles. In this exquisite rendering derived from the Greco-Roman realism of Gandharan art, demons attack him in an attempt to scare him off the path. Seductive women do their best to distract him. He remains placid and firm in his conviction that these beings have no inherent reality, and he renders them powerless.

Citations

Tardy. Les ivoires; évolution décorative du Ier siècle à nos jours. 1972. p. 188, fig. 2

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 293 archive.org

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245); July 2, 2014 -

Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 5, 1986).