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一座博物馆杰作的等身复制品如何点燃了罕见的中美合作How a museum masterpiece’s life-size replica sparked rare US-China collaboration

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对于曾到访纽约大都会艺术博物馆中国画廊的任何人来说,有一件作品会让他们驻足。

For anyone who has visited the Chinese galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is one work that stops them in their tracks.

踏入206号展厅——这里收藏中国佛教艺术,参观者会被一面巨大的墙面所迎接——宽超过15米,高7.5米(近50英尺乘25英尺)——上面覆盖着一幅规模宏大、气势雄伟的佛教众生像,瞬间让曼哈顿外的喧嚣消失。

Stepping into Gallery 206, home to Chinese Buddhist art, visitors are met by a monumental wall – over 15 metres wide and 7.5 metres tall (nearly 50 feet by 25 feet) – covered in a Buddhist assembly so vast and majestic that it momentarily erases the Manhattan bustle outside.

这里矗立着药师佛,一尊14世纪元朝(1279-1368)...

Here stands the Medicine Buddha, a 14th century Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)...