Year: 2025
Dimensions: 39.5×39.5 cm
Title: Excerpt from The Diamond Sutra
Medium: Wood veneer metal frame, silk brocade, Suzhou-crafted green fan-shaped paper with gold-flecked snowflakes
Content:
And finally, Subhuti, if a Bodhisattva, a great being had filled world-systems immeasurable and incalculable with the seven precious things, and gave them as a gift to the Tathagatas, the Arhats, the fully Enlightened Ones, and if, on the other hand, a son or daughter of good family had taken from this Prajnaparamita, this discourse on Dharma, but one stanza of four lines, and were to bear it in mind, demonstrate, recite and study it, and illuminate it in full detail for others, on the strength of that this latter would beget a greater heap of merit, immeasurable and incalculable. And how would he illuminate it? So as not to reveal. Therefore is it said, ‘he would illuminate'.
As stars, a fault of vision, as a lamp, A mock show, dew drops, or a bubble, A dream, a lightning flash, or cloud, So should one view what is conditioned.
Thus spoke the Lord. Enraptured, the Elder Subhuti, the monks and nuns, the pious laymen and laywomen, and the Bodhisattvas, and the whole world with its Gods, men, Asuras and Gandharvas rejoiced in the Lord's teaching.
Colophon & Signature:
Excerpt from the Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra. Yunyun with palms joined in reverence.
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