The Ksitigarbha Belief And Icon From 5^th Through 10^th Century

The paper mainly studies the fifth to the tenth centuries on the notion of faith in Ksitigarbha and its relations with other related topics images.This Paper uses the methods of religion,iconography and thought history.First of all,I discuss the backgrounds to establish the form of faith.Taking possession of bits and images Savaka classic features as the starting point to discuss the source of their identity,which leads to the discussion and inclusion of the change fr om Mahayana to Hinayana.Then I come up with the ideas that the shape of the Ksitigarbha comes from Savaka Sangha,and that the recognition and acceptance of its Savaka phase reflects its gradual rise Savaka worship in China,the worship of nature and grievous to monks on the core of this consciousness is the Buddhist people of God to secular turning.Based on the research of the appearance of characteristics of Ksitigarbha Savaka,the paper studies on the ground instances of an image made Savaka appearance investigation,and in appearance legend were Savaka reduction interpret iconography presented in this ancient myth of creation in the hidden "Acception of worship by the appearance in icon" custom views.Upon the exploration of appearance features,the paper classifies and analyzes elements of related images,with the ideas that the parallel dual figures models and master patterns from the combined image three figures of Ksitigarbha is helpful to the content and form.This is the inherent requirement of possession of Ksitigarbha belief as well as the autonomous expression without the sutra,which greatly enhances the divinity godhead status connotation of Ksitigarbha.On the basis of the spirit of faith in folk Buddhism qualities premise,the paper then discussed six destinies in FIG.Coming up with the view that thanks to benefit from the creation of the image,the status of faith continues to enhance,and even six of saving sentient beings of the guide into its category among reflected in possession of six stylized image.I think that the six destinies images involves thinking of the Buddha incarnation,Imitation to Avatamsaka world,but the end result faithful to reality to make merit by pursuing this image becomes an auxiliary element remaining in the image of Ten Kings.Possession of Ten Kings theme is in possession of an image of yet another focus of this paper analyzes the possession of belief in hell deliverance final positioning before and after the logic of the ten kings belief that presented its start in the official historical figures enshrinement System He argued that this once again demonstrates the characteristics of imitating its folk Buddhism,but also to the connotation of possession of ten kings from folk Buddhism belief generalization become the general belief of the whole society.In addition to discuss the visual images and its beliefs,the paper also investigates the images of the tenth century efficacious in mind,and sketches out its text contained in the image of Ksitigarbha belief relationship with some of the important ideas.This paper attempts to show the change process to faith on the basis of the features of the images to get a further understanding the value of the image in popular culture level of folk Buddhist faith has in it.