查果西沟摩崖造像2009年考古调查简报

2009年6月,陕西省考古研究院与西藏自治区文物保护研究所联合对西藏自治区昌都地区芒康县查果西沟摩崖造像进行了全面而详细的考古调查,现存的7尊造像可以分为三组:第一组包括大日如来与二菩萨、一供养人在内的4尊造像具有明显的吐蕃造像特征,时代为公元9世纪初期;第二组的1尊高浮雕造像与第三组的2尊线刻造像时代可能为公元12世纪甚至更晚,显示了查果西沟及周边地区佛教的发展及延续性。

A Brief Report on the Survey of Cliffside Images in the Brag sGo bShad Valley,2009

In June,2009,the Tibet Cultural Relics Preservation Institute and the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology conducted a substantial investigation on cliffside images in Brag sGo bShad valley in Markam county of Qamdo Prefecture,Tibet Autonomous Region.Cliffside images in the valley can be subdivided into three groups.The first group includes four figures: one Mahavairocana,two bodhisattvas,and one donor.All of them represent typical characteristics dating to the Bod period in the early 9th century.Although the iconographies of the second and third groups were dated to later period,they indicate a subsequent development and continuation of Buddhism in the valley and surrounding areas.