雪域财神 | 当代艺术年礼

雪 域 财 神

FORTUNE OF SNOWLAND

雪域财神——吐宝兽，管理着世间的财富，象征慷慨和给予。相传多闻天王愿消除救渡一切众生之穷困，使用胜利宝幢向世间降下各种宝物，但是有一只贪婪的土拨鼠将全部宝物吸入肚中导致人们得不到宝物，多闻天王见此状便立即抓住其颈部让一切宝物从口中吐出，从此天王在救渡世间时都将吐宝兽带在身边，在此过程中吐宝兽发现给予比自私更能获得快乐，便开始主动帮助天王救渡世间，成为了人人供奉的雪域财神。

Fortune of Snowland

Lucky Animal controls the wealth of the world,which symbolizes generosity and giving.

Traditon has it that King of Broad Knowledge wished to eliminate the poverty for the salvation of all being using the Victroy Treasure to drop all kinds of treasures into the world.

But there was a greedy groundhog sucking all the treasures into his belly,which caused that people could not obtain the treasure. When King of the Broad Knowledge saw this,he immediately took hold of the groundhogs neck and let all the precious things come out of his mouth.Since then,While King of the Broad Knowledge was in the rescue of the world,he always let Lucky Animal accompany with him.During the process,Lucky Animal found the one could obtain much happiness from giving tan being selfish.

Hence,Lucky Animal began offering to help King of the Broad Knowledgesave the world,and became Fortune of Snowland that everyone worshiped.