半跏思惟佛像表现的是释迦成佛前身为太子时思索人生哲理的情形。其样式最早可见于犍陀罗石雕,甚至可以追溯到古代希腊及罗马时代地中海沿岸的墓碑及石棺上的悲哀妇女像。此种思惟像也流传到了中国、朝鲜半岛和日本,至今遗品尚多。 Half-tibetan Buddhist statues show the philosophical thinking of life when Buddha was originally a prince. Its style can be found in the earliest stone carving Gandhara, and even can be traced back to the tombstones of the Mediterranean coast in ancient Greece and Rome and sad women like sarcophagus. This kind of thinking also spread to China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan, so far remains.