Buddhist Thinking Like Research

In the field of Buddhism research, Buddhist Siwei Icons were not given fullattention in the past. Now diging into correlation and differences of the images fromIndian and Chinese, and the Chinese Buddhist literature and the literature of thepoetry, researching the Indian source of the Siwei Image and the deformation inChinese, investigating the combination of the Siwei Bodhisattva images, andanalysing the Siwei Prince Siddhārtha Images and the literature, comparing the SiweiImages and documents between Western, India and Chinese cultures in anextensively field of view, This paper probes into Buddhist Siwei Image newly, andthen advances the following important views:1. Buddhist Siwei Icons are the religious statues of the Siwei hand. Thehand lifts near the head or the one side of the cheeks, the head slightly tilts towardthe raised hands. Sometime the figure gently touches the right cheek with his one ortwo fingers or palm of his right or left hand. the specific gesture is the key toidentifying the Siwei figure.2. This image has a wide distribution. Many statues has the pose of Siweihand in India. This reflect the cult of Sākyamuni Buddha and the prosperous of theliterature of Sākyamuni Buddha in India. And in China, the statues are only PrinceSiddhārtha, Bodhisattva. Different statues have different means in different plot. Inaddition, the pose of the head resting on the hand represents the break or leisure.3. Comparing with the image of the Greek, both are the same modelling. Inrespect of the time and original meaning, The posture of Buddhism could come fromthe Greek. The basic reason of the less Siwei figure after Tang Dynasty in China is thedifferent Cultures.4. The image of Prince Siddhārtha implies sorrow, pensiveness, karunā-cittaand dhyāna under the bodhivrksa(Boddi Tree),then attaining Buddhahood. Thisreflect the relation between the image and the literature of Buddhism. Theappearence of Buddha and Bodhisattva Siwei figures is a breakthrough to some ruleof Vinaya, and the symbol of the change of Mahayāna and the thought of salvation in Buddhist history.