参观了这个藏文化展,这一馆总是让我惊心:
Carpet of Flayed Man
This flayed male (Tibetan: g.yang gzhi) appears to be bound at and suspended by the wrists. He is bearded and fanged and his skin is stripped, as if he were being identified with an animal, thus bridging the human and bestial worlds. His feet and hands intercept the decorative border of freshly severed heads, grinning macabrely. Such a fearsome carpet could have served as an appropriate site for making tantric offerings to the wrathful protector deities within the gonkhang, the chapel dedicated to their worship within a Tibetan monastery.
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This example depicts a bearded man, flayed (Tibetan: g.yang gzhi) and spread-eagle in a sea of blood—a gruesome image testifying to the power of sacrifice in the pacification of malevolent spirits. The red patterning on the skin may suggest the internal organs or arteries. While such rugs were probably reserved for use by senior officiating lamas and as mats upon which to make tantric offerings, as recently as the nineteenth century, the use of actual human skins is recorded in descriptions of protector-deity worship. The pioneering western scholar of Tibetan religions, the medical officer Augustine Waddell, clandestinely visited Tibet several times in the 1890s from his base at Darjeeling, and he recalled witnessing lifelike human figurines at a ceremony at Hemis monastery in Ladakh.
Skull Cup (kapala)
Offering Table with Lords of the Cremation Grounds
Vajra Chopper Knife
Ritual Rug with Two Flayed Male Figures
Carpet of Flayed Man
Carpet of Flayed Elephant
贪?嗔?痴???藏传佛教总有让我吃惊的地方。这些,一般老外还看不明白!
- Re: RE: Carpet of Flayed Manposted on 10/18/2010
不知道如何评价。
最后一幅怎么那个人下面好像还有一条尾巴?
- Re: RE: Carpet of Flayed Manposted on 10/18/2010
哦,没仔细看,那是个大象。
- Re: RE: Carpet of Flayed Manposted on 10/22/2010
我还是第一次见这样的唐卡。值得好好研究!
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