Study On The Building Of Anyue Buddha Statues Feature

The sculpture of Sakyamuni Buddha parinirvana which located in Ba Miao, An Yue has a long history, it has been carved since Tang Dynasty. There are 139 niches and 1631 sculptures existed,and also a wide range of scripture subjects. Casting back the history, it is not difficult to find that the Reclining Buddha sculpture in An Yue was derive from the Indian sculpture of Sakyamuni Buddha parinirvana.With the age changed, it spread to Shu Dynasty and became the largest whole body sculpture which lie on left side in China.The specificity of An Yue Reclining Buddha sculpture make itself to be the precious treasure of Buddhism statues. The Reclining Buddha sculptures have been the third batch of national key culture relic protection site as well as the cultural heritages which announced by the State Council in 1985. The Reclining Buddha grottoes groups in An Yue, its superior geographical conditions and historical background of religion are the important foundations in the formation of the parinirvana sculptures. The formation of the giant Reclining Buddha sculpture has been experienced the history of eastward and the evolution of parinirvana style. It has both inherited the parinirvana style of Central China since Northern Dynasty and some sculpture elements of Gandhara. Through the changes of regional cultures, An Yue Reclining Buddha grottoes groups have already had their unique artistic style and sculpture features.The blend of beauty of human nature with tragic emotions can be seen in parinirvana images of the sculpture of Anyue Reclining Buddha Grottoes, which is a mutual fusion that makes the overall sculpture style more vivid and full of spirituality. Because of this, the parinirvana Sculpture of Anyue Reclining Buddha not only shows a sense of beauty of human nature and kindness of love, and also represent a solemn and respectful feeling of parinirvana ceremony as well. The former is a kind of happiness while the latter is a kind of sadness. Artistic style produced by mingling the two makes Anyue Reclining Buddha sculpture Grottoes distinctive and endowed with tensility. Thus it can be seen that the sculpture of Anyue Reclining Buddha Grottoes have rich connotation of value when they are blended human nature into divinity. In this way, those sculpture have become the apotheosis of the art of grotto statuary with nationalization and have fully reflected their own higher research value no matter from the perspectives of theme of carved stone figures and art or the aspects of history and sociology as well as constructing.