叠罗汉入唐以来,敦煌石窟壁画在表现西方净土中的莲花化生观念时,完全突破了仅仅在莲花中化生的形式,而是在化育生命的七宝池、八功德水中,描绘了大量充满现实生活情趣的儿童形象。作为唐代百戏之一的叠罗汉即在其中。敦煌壁画中的叠罗汉形象以儿童为主,最著名者当为莫高窟第220窟南壁《阿弥陀经变》(初唐)和第217窟《观无量寿经变》(盛唐)中的化生童子图(图1),它们已在由敦煌研究院编 Since the founding of Tang Dynasty, the Dunhuang Grottoes murals completely broke through the form of only metaplasia in the lotus in expressing the concepts of the Lotus in the Pure Land in the West. Instead, they painted a lot of real life Taste of children’s image. As one of the hundreds of opera in the Tang Dynasty that is, among them. The images of the superimposed Han dynasty in Dunhuang frescoes are mainly children. The most famous figures in Dunhuang frescoes are the Amitabha Transfiguration (early Tang) and the Great Wall The boy picture (Figure 1), they have been compiled by the Dunhuang Academy