The First Exploration On The Self-sacrificing Mural Of The Buddhist Jataka Stories

The self-sacrificing story is a big subject of the Buddhist jataka stories. This article attempts to makes a primary research on the subjects, from the perspective of aesthetics. This paper not only describes the murals of Bunsen, birth, death, artistic image, and expounds its narrative paintings of Buddhism in the humanities and cultural connotations. Meanwhile, the article interprets "life consciousness" imagery and other inanimate consciousness symbol of image consciousness, trees, mountain, stone included. It also interprets the class of simple style of "National People’s Congress in the mountain", the composition of the margins, filling or image, as well as red analogy in the blood, black as mysterious cultural depth in the mural. And then, the paper will Summarized the Buddhist jataka stories make an important historical significance for the development of Chinese aesthetics.Specifically, this paper points out in the picture the mural painting has strong aesthetic implication, such as the original and winding on the birth, life and death, the understanding of charity. First of all, from the meaning of the humanities, the born in Buddhism is a kind of intuitive cycles, more than life and endless."Life and death" and charity have deep thoughts. On the one hand, the problem of "life and death" has been puzzled the world, who is thinking hard about it; On the other hand, charity reveals the true meaning of life over the "life and death". Animal image as the theme in the paintings, contains a strong metaphor. Tiger belongs to totem worship of the beast walking on the land and the eagle can be classified into life symbolic of the wings to fly in the sky, while, deer is the Buddha practicing more and connecting life beyond the spirit of the model, the three kinds of animal image contain the rich symbolic meaning, an implicit understanding of life and yearning. Secondly, from the model expression, the mural contains three elements of object proportion, composition, color. On the one hand, the proportion of object embodied in "National People’s Congress in the mountain", which is not only a kind of painting style, but also expresses the people’s aesthetic orientation of simple and primitive; on the other hand, the "full" composition of the picture both expresses the people inside the longing for "bravery", at the same time, it also implies the psychological characteristics of the early painters "fearing" the white space. White space, however, as a kind of parallel composition, became the basis of full composition in the later historical phenomenon; Moreover, the color is bearing the weight of the expression of people inside the most primitive, has the rich characteristics of expression. Red, is the flow of blood, with this kind of vivid colors to express the existence of primitive life; Black, is the color of life, it contains a vital and mysterious transcendental power. Represented by two main color is red, black color worship, spiritual pursuit, with the lives of people at that time the original expression and yearning. Overall, this paper argues that the self-sacrificing mural of the Buddhist jataka story contains rich aesthetic implication. Aesthetic significance of the theme of the mural is the case, that it is a physical interpretation of Buddhism and desire, a symbol of his life for this behavior, as well as outside the cycle, converted to the realm of the world preaching the Pure Land. As a result, more subjects mural of Buddhist Bunsen story build the meaning of the world, and the impact on the Chinese Buddhist aesthetics is very profound.