The Formation Of The Balance Style

The Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures in the history of Japanese sculpture is called "golden age". They are heritaging from Nara Times, the Nara city today still largely retains its carvings of the Buddha temple of Nara Times, and other regions also retaine a small amount of Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures. According to each temple’s property records and Japanese official historical literature records, there are clear or being identified for this period dating works which have been nearly a hundred pieces,Especially the Buddhist sculptures of the Temple Todaiji, Yakushiji and Toshodai which preserved in the city of Nara are headed, they are deeply influenced by the style of Chinese Tang Dynasty Buddhist sculptures, it can provides valuable materials for us to further understand the world of the Buddhist art of Japan’s Tenpiou. This paper will conduct a research on the style of Tenpiou’s Buddhist sculptures excavated in Nara area and explore the relation between Chinese Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist sculptures.The thesis is divided into three parts. The first chapter gives a view on Buddhist history before Tenpiou Times and describes the basic situation of the Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures which inherited the style of the Buddhist sculptures of the previous generation called Hakuho. The second chapter focuses on the relation between the styles of Chinese Tang Dynasty’s Buddhist statues and the Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures. Based on historical trajectory of Qian Tang Shi and other cultural intermediary, we can analysis and compare the Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures and Chinese Tang Dynasty’s typical Buddhist sculptures by graphics for founding the style of the Buddhist art which has specific impacted the style of the Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures. The third chapter systematically explains the dry paint(Jia Zhu) process on the use of sculptures making, and focuses on the style and shows the forming and developing of them, then explains the features of the Buddhist sculptures, this part also judges and describes the three Yakushi Buddhist sculptures in the Yakushiji Jintang that which times they belongs to.Generally speaking, through exploring the style and origin of the Buddhist sculptures by analysising and comparing the main features, we expect to get a clear understanding of the way how the Tenpiou Buddhist sculptures formed the special style by inheriting the internal ones and absorbing the external ones, finally laid the foundation of the mode of Buddhist sculpture art in Japan.