纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 041无量寿佛坐像(7)

（单词翻译）

In the sculpture Buddha's fingers stand in for the spokes¹ of the wheel, and he's setting in motion the Wheel of Law to his followers², who will eventually be able to renounce³ the material states of illusion, suffering and individuality for the immaterial state of the highest happiness: nirvana. Here's an old Buddhist⁴ teaching:

佛陀的手指代表法轮，他为听众转动法轮，让他们能放下虚幻的现实，脱离苦难与自我，进人极乐的涅槃状态。佛陀教导：

"It is only the fool who is deceived by the outward show of beauty; for where is the beauty when the decorations of the person are taken away, the jewels removed, the gaudy⁵ dress laid aside, the flowers and chaplets withered⁶ and dead? The wise man, seeing the vanity of all such fictitious⁷ charms, regards them as a dream, a mirage⁸, a fantasy."

外饰粉脂。璎珞衣服。华髮钗钏。假庄严身。痴人不知。横被诳惑。于色境界。妄生欲心。若有智人。正念观察妇人身体体性如是空无有主。犹如梦幻。

All Buddhist art aims to detach the faithful from the physical world, even if it uses a physical image like our statue to do so.

佛教的所有艺术都教导人们不要眷恋虚幻的物质世界，即使它所依赖的是佛像这种物质实体。