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He's seated cross-legged in the lotus position, a pose used for meditation and, as here, for teaching.
他的蓮花坐姿是佛教中冥想與說法時(shí)的姿勢。
But this statue-and the thousands made later that look so like it-has a purpose.Tibetan Thupten Jinpa, a former monk and interpreter to the Dalai Lama, explains how you use an image like this one as a help on your journey towards enlightenment:
這尊佛像與后來出現(xiàn)的成千上萬的類似佛像都有著同一個(gè)目的。曾做過僧人的圖登金巴向我們解釋佛像如何助人開悟:
"What the religious practitioners do is to bring the image of the Buddha-by first looking at the image, and then bringing that image of the Buddha within oneself-in a sort of a mental image.And then reflect upon the qualities of the Buddha-Buddha's body, speech and mind. The image of the Buddha plays a role of recalling in the mind of the devotee, the historical teacher, the Buddha, and his experience of awakening, and also the key events in his life. There are different images, forms of the Buddha, that actually kind of symbolise those events. For example, there is a very famous posture of the Buddha, which is seated but with his hand in a gesture of preaching. Technically, this hand gesture is referred to as the gesture of turning the wheel of dharma, Dharmachakra.
修行者凝視佛像，佛的形象隨之進(jìn)入他們的心靈。之后他們思考佛的身、語、意。佛像能令信徒想起佛陀，回憶起他的奉獻(xiàn)、開悟以及重要事跡。不同形式的佛像實(shí)際上就代表了不同的事跡。比如，佛陀有一個(gè)很著名的姿勢：結(jié)跏趺坐，手作說法印。其實(shí)嚴(yán)格來說, 這應(yīng)該叫轉(zhuǎn)法輪印，意為轉(zhuǎn)動佛法之輪。
And this is the hand gesture of our seated Buddha. The Dharmachakra, or Wheel of Law, is a symbol that represents the path to enlightenment, and it's one of the oldest known Buddhist symbols found in Indian art.
這正是本文中坐佛的手勢。法輪象征了通往開悟的道路，是印度藝術(shù)中已知最古老的佛教象征。
