Seven Buddhas – detention of Sunfo Thangka

[Seven Buddhas – Detainment of Sunfo Thangka]

Seven Buddhas – Detainment of Sunfo Thangka, 18th century, Beijing, paper edition, ink and gold painting, 157 cm in height, 95 cm in width, 106 cm in vertical and 66 cm in horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The detention of Sun Buddha is the fourth Buddha of the seven Buddhas in the past, and the first Buddha of the thousands of Buddhas who have been robbed by virtue. Its name is translated as “holding”, “should be broken”, and “achievement is wonderful”. The first class record of the “Chang Ahan Sutra” recorded that Sun Buddha was detained when he appeared in the Xiankai. His life was 40000 years old. It is said that there was still the stupa of the Buddha in India at the time of Asoka
In the painting, Sun Fo is now in meditation, sitting in the middle with his hands cupping, and forming a path under the tree of the corpse. Two of the first disciples, Sani and Pilou, are famous for their wisdom and supernatural powers. They are separated from the Buddha. The name of the Buddha is superior to that of the Buddha. It is painted on the lower right side of the Buddha. He sits with his hands folded. The deacon disciple named Shanjue sat opposite the Buddha. The Buddha’s parents are of the Brahman caste, the father is remembered, the mother’s name is Shanzhi, and she wears the crown of king. On the upper part of the painting is a four-body script of the Han, Manchu, Mongol and Tibetan Buddhism in gold, which is exquisitely carved. The Chinese text reads: “Seeing the body without reality is the Buddha’s body, and seeing the mind like a fantasy is the Buddha’s fantasy, and realizing the emptiness of the body and mind. What is the difference between a man and a Buddha?” The picture includes two frames, the outer frame is painted with two dragons playing on the top and the bottom, and the two sides are painted with the patterns of ascending dragons and chasing treasures. The four corners of the column are marked with the words of the Han, Manchu, Mongol and Tibetan four-body script of the “Emperor Qianlong Dingyou”, and the inner frame is painted with seven treasures
On the back of the Thangka, there is the inscription of a stone with white silk in the four-body ink script of Han, Manchu and Mongol Tibetan. The Chinese text reads: “On the first day of May of the forty-second year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered to take the seven axes of the Fanxiang Buddha tribute to Erdeni, Panchen, to determine the order and the parents of the seven Buddhas, and to translate the Buddhist verses into the top of the four-body books. The stone is used to imitate the mat, which is widely circulated, and will win forever.”, It is one of the biographical rubbings of the carved stone sculptures on the seven pagodas in the North Sea.

七佛——拘留孙佛唐卡背后白绫签