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尼坐像,兩側(cè)為其弟子阿難和迦葉像。釋迦偏袒左肩,結(jié)跏趺坐,莊嚴(yán)靜穆。佛像后背是用樟木雕刻而成的 “ 五龍 捧圣 ” 的圖案。佛像前還有韋馱、彌勒、地藏像。佛像后是一組海島觀音像。只見海島觀音赤足站立,左右侍立著一龍女和童子,背后是一面高達八尺的泥塑懸崖峭壁,足下碧波萬頃,怒濤洶涌。整個塑像向前傾覆。人們仰視上去,只見觀音衣袖似在飄動,正在洶涌的波濤上迎面向你走來,增加了宗教藝術(shù)的感染力。佛像前的供桌,是一件不可多得的木刻珍品。供桌高 4 丈 8 尺,橫闊 1 丈 2 尺,深寬 尺,前嵌垂欄,寬 尺,高 尺,其間分為五格,深畫鏤空。圖案描繪的是唐玄奘取經(jīng)回長安時,君民夾道歡迎的場面:有唐僧、孫悟空、豬八戒、沙和尚等《西游 記》人物,有李世民以下文武百官、侍衛(wèi)、庶民百姓 。有亭院殿墻,車馬山水,幢幡寶蓋,香爐蠟臺等一應(yīng)俱全。綜觀全圖,繁復(fù)活潑,盛況空前。垂欄下沿為五龍云彩,周圍匝繞,以四虎腿支地,生動有力。相傳這一樟木雕刻由十人歷時一年才完成。 大雄寶殿前的韋馱殿內(nèi),供奉著一尊木雕韋馱像,身著鎧甲,手持寶杵,威武挺立,用我國古代武將形象表達了古印度神話中 “ 四大天王三十二將 ” 之首的護法神形象。這座木雕系用整塊樟木雕成,線條刀法都是唐朝風(fēng)格,是歸元寺的藝術(shù)珍品,也是我國雕刻藝術(shù)品中的一件寶貴遺產(chǎn)。 歸元寺屬曹洞宗,又稱歸元禪 寺,它與寶通寺、溪蓮寺、正覺寺今稱為武漢的四大叢林。 湖北歸元寺英文導(dǎo)游詞 guiyuan temple chinese buddhist temples are never single buildings. they always consist of a group buildings following a fundamental patter, which can, however, be modified. the main buildings and their symmetrically corresponding secondary buildings form individual groups and courtyards. the entire temple plex is spacious. the building inside the plex are usually singlestoried and the main halls are sometimes decorated with a double roof. the towers, pavilions and halls can be multistoried structures. the chinese temple plex has been subject to great structural changes throughout the centuries. but temple architects follow the basic principles of secular structures from the tang dynasty onwards. the plexes stand on a central axis, usually a northsouth axis: eastwest only as an exception. (guiyuan temple is just the very exception.) the main buildings are strung along this central axis, their broadest sides facing south or east. the most import