佛之形像。广义含菩萨、罗汉、明王、等像。其像虽有雕塑像、画像（绘像）二种，然仅雕塑像称佛像，画像则称图像。印度古代认为雕画佛像乃是冒渎神圣之事，故山琦（梵Sa^nchi^ ）等之古雕刻，仅止于以佛法、菩提树、佛足迹等标记象征佛。其后，随大乘佛教之兴起，佛像之雕刻始盛行，故诸大乘经典中有甚多关于造像因缘及其功德之记载。

The image of the Buddha. Generalized with Bodhisattvas, Lohan, Ming, such as. Although there are two kinds of sculptures and pictures, they are just like the statue of Buddha, and the images are called images. India ancient carving painting Buddha is considered sacrilege sacred thing, so the mountain Qi (Sanskrit Sa^nchi^) of ancient sculpture, only in Buddhism, bodhi tree, Buddha Buddha footprint mark symbol. Subsequently, with the rise of Mahayana Buddhism, the sculpture of the Buddha was in vogue, so many of the Mahayana classics have many records about the cause and virtue of the statue.

佛像艺术

Buddha Statue Art

佛像艺术的出现，是公元一、二世纪的事情。那是一种受到古希腊文化影响的、印度文化和西域文化相混合的「犍陀罗」文化的产物。

The appearance of the art of Buddha is a matter of the one or two century. It is a mixture of a influenced by the ancient Greek culture, India culture and the western culture of "Gandhara culture".

二千五百多年前释迦牟尼在世时，是反对印度社会婆罗门教的偶像崇拜的。在佛教产生后的六百年间，佛教信徒一直遵循释迦牟尼生前的教训，不立偶像崇拜。在印度史上，直到公元一世纪前，并未见有佛的雕塑像和绘画像出现。在阿育王时代（公元前二七二-前二三二年）建造的佛陀伽耶之摩诃菩提寺中，虽然可以见到不少雕塑图案和佛座，但是，佛座上并无佛像可见。从这里，可以看到当时的佛教信徒还遵从释迦牟尼的遗训，不行偶像崇拜之事。当然，也有可能出于这样一种心理，即他们以为佛的神圣形象难以描绘，制作佛像是一种亵渎神圣的罪过。

二千五百多年前释迦牟尼在世时，是反对印度社会婆罗门教的偶像崇拜的。 In the six hundred years after the birth of Buddhism, Buddhist believers have always followed the lessons of Shakya Muni's life and do not worship idolatry. In the history of India, until the first Century ad, there was no statue and painting of Buddha. In the era of Ashoka (272 BC - 232 BC) built by the Maha Bodhi Temple of Buddha Gaya, although you can see a lot of sculpture pattern and the Buddha, but the Buddha Buddha is not visible. From here, we can see that the followers of Buddhism also follow Shakya Muni's teachings, no matter the worship of idols. Of course, it may also be out of the mentality that they think that the sacred image of the Buddha is difficult to describe, and making the statue of the Buddha is a blasphemous crime.