Turkey Early Guanyin Statue Style Evolution And Culture

Avalokitesvara is a very important Bodhisattva.In the belief of India’s Buddhism,it has a long history, prolific content and effected lasting.As one of the most influential Mahayana Bodhisattva,Avalokitesvara is widely worshiped. Avalokitesvara spread eastward in the Jin Dynasty of China,Avalokitesvara belief is the most sacred,popular,public,appealed exotic belief in the two kinds of civilization communication between India Buddhist culture and Chinese traditional culture.Avalokitesvara’s character, meets the needs of Chinese recognize and Compensates for the shortcomings of Chinese culture. So in the process of Avalokitesvara spread to China,it attuned to China social cultural and Chinese psychology closely, through constantly evolving, constantly regulate,it became the most profound,the most comprehensively,the most thoroughly, the most widely religion form in India Buddhist Sinicization process. It has profound impact on Chinese philosophy, religion, ethics, literature, art, social life and way of thinking, the national spirit and so on.Buddhist art is the cultural carrier, spiritual expression and relying on faith, since Buddhist statues appeared in Gandhara region in first Century AD. Buddha statues have contributed power in the expression of Buddhist thought, the aid of religion practices, the strengthening of religious feelings,the dissemination of Buddhist thought and so on and achieved remarkable results.Firstly, the paper defined some concepts used in the writing.Secondly,the paper made an overall review and analysis about almost all Avalokitesvara artistic achievements of the academic circles.Then used the sculptural art of Central Asia, Xinjiang and other places as the background to introduce the origin and development of Avalokitesvara briefly. Afterwards, the paper utilized a lot of achievements of literature and archaeological finds in the context of historic development of Buddhist art. Also about Avalokitesvara statues from the Later Qin,through Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Song, Qi, Liang, Chen Dynasty of Southern Dynasties, The paper summarized Avalokitesvara statues’s characteristics of each period, and combed different faith types and Combination of Avalokitesvara statues. Second, analyzed the interaction between early Avalokitesvara statues and Chinese traditional cultures, such as the contact between early Avalokitesvara statues and Metaphysics, Taoism, Confucianism, Chinese aesthetics. Again, discussed the religious connotations reflected from the earlier Avalokitesvara statues, including the Buddhist inherent meaning of the fingerprints, musical instruments and decoration of early Avalokitesvara statues contanining, the religious function of early Avalokitesvara statues, the embodied Buddhist Goddess aesthetics of Avalokitesvara statues, the faith type and features statues with different identity possessing and other content, and summarized the essential characteristics of the early Middle Avalokitesvara statues.At last, the paper gave a summary about Avalokitesvara statues’ Status and influence in the history of Buddhism, the history Chinese art, the history of civilized intercourse.The author think Avalokitesvara art sculpture has an extremely important significance in Buddhist art of Sinicization River. If you want to do deeply, exhaustively and developmental understanding about civilization, religious development, devotional changes Etc,to study the research of rheological style and culture connotation reflected in the early Middle Avalokitesvara statue is very meaningful.