Year: 2025
Dimensions: 9.5-inch folding fan with 18 ribs
Title: Excerpt from The Diamond Sutra
Medium: Handcrafted Luohan-bamboo folding fan with a gold-flecked “fish-roe” leaf in the Suzhou style(Cinnabar Ink)
Content:
What do you think? Subhuti,is the Tathagata to be seen by means of his possession of marks?-Subhuti replied:No indeed, O Lord.-The Lord said:If,Subhuti,the Tathagara could be recognized by his possession of marks, then also the universal monarch would be a Tathagata.Therefore the Tathagata is not to be seen by means of his possession of marks.-Subhuti then said:As I,o Lord,understand the Lord’s teaching, the Tathagata is not to be seen through his possession of marks.
Further the Lord taught on that occasion the following stanzas:
Those who by my form did see me,
And those who followed me by voice,
Wrong the efforts they engaged in,
Me those people will not see.
What do you think,Subhuti,has the Tathagata fully known the utmost,right and perfect enlightenment through his possession of marks?Not so should you see it,Subhuti.And why?Because the Tathagata could surely not have fully known the utmost, right and perfect enlightenment through his possession of marks.
Nor should anyone,Subhuti,say to you,‘thosewho have set out in the Bodhisattva-vehicle have conceived the destruction of a dharma. or its annihilation’.Not so should you see it,Suhbuti!For those who have set out in the Bodhisattva-vehicle have not conceived the destruction of a dharma,or its annihilation.
Colophon & Signature:
Excerpt from the Diamond Prajna Paramita Sutra. Respectfully calligraphed by Wang Yunyun on the 26th day of the fourth month in the Year of Yisi, with palms joined in reverence.
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