Xia Jingshan's Life Experience

Xia Jingshan, 1923, from Weifang, Shandong. /kloc-When he was 0/6 years old, he studied Danqing under Mr. Guo Weiqu, and later learned painting techniques such as flowers, figures, ladies and landscapes from famous teachers. At the age of 28, Master Bai Nanting became a monk, converted to Buddhism, and made a vow to dedicate his body and mind to the Buddha. Since then, he has devoted himself to Buddhism, extensively cultivated bodhisattvas, followed the great virtues of eminent monks at home and abroad, and studied metaphysics teaching methods for more than 50 years.

Do your duty in the temple, practice bodhisattva and devote yourself to the cause of Buddhism. Since then, he has devoted himself to Buddhism, extensively cultivated bodhisattvas, and studied metaphysical teaching methods with eminent monks and great virtues at home and abroad for more than 50 years. The dew of Buddhism not only opened his wisdom, but also made his Buddhist painting art reach a transcendent, pure and solemn realm. 197 1 year, Xia Jingshan moved from Taiwan Province Province to California, USA, and entered the Academy of Fine Arts for further study. At the same time, he visited the world's major museums to learn copying and devoted himself to the art of Buddhist painting. Over the past decades, his ideas have become more ingenious, his technology has become more exquisite and his skills have become deeper. The paintings and statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva in ancient kilns, temple walls and scriptures in China can make people who are destined to pay tribute to us today feel the compassion and wisdom of the Buddha from the heart, and even feel the power of the Buddha. It is difficult to use the word "art" to explain the feelings and feelings of Buddhist painting, just like the Buddha and Bodhisattva before now. If the usual artistic ingenuity is only to convey the artist's creative enthusiasm and personal unique spiritual realm, then the excellent Buddhist painting art just abandons these secular artistic conceptions. If literati painting focuses on the word "meaning" and literati painting focuses on the word "emotion", then Buddhist painting focuses on the word "Qing". The "pure" realm in Buddhism is full of truth, goodness and beauty, which is in line with the vast compassion and infinite merits of all buddhas and bodhisattvas, so people can experience special purity and solemnity from Buddhist painting art.

Buddhism emphasizes practice, faith, will, action, discipline, determination and wisdom. Painting Buddha statues also stresses etiquette and inheritance. People who paint Buddha statues should not only follow the ceremony, but also immerse themselves in the respect for the perfect virtue of saints and spend their lives understanding and accepting the realm of Buddha and Bodhisattva. In these Buddhist paintings and statues, a pen shows right knowledge and right view; Layer by layer, the top-down admiration is condensed. Therefore, painting Buddha statues is a practice, and appreciating and contemplating these Buddha statues is also a practice. Painting Buddhism with the artist's pure heart and respecting the hearts of all beings with Buddhism can make people put themselves down and achieve purification.

"Being on an equal footing, being reasonable, beneficial and restrained" is a common saying of Xiajingshan laymen. For all the sects of Buddhism, he did not praise only one Sect and exclude others. He once said: "there is no price for medicine, the more sick the better;" There is no distinction between good and bad laws, and opportunities are the best. " This practice of combining various sects is based on the overall consideration of Buddhism. In addition, because he studied Confucianism since childhood and extensively studied Zhu Lu and Wang Zhi, he not only made in-depth research on Naiming and Chinese studies, but also became proficient in Yi-ology, philosophy, calligraphy and painting.

Xia Jingshan's Buddhist painting art can be said to reflect the wisdom and compassion of Buddha and Bodhisattva harmoniously. He integrated his profound and true understanding of Buddhism into every work, and drew every pure and solemn Buddhist painting with reverence by using the techniques of freehand brushwork in Chinese painting, delicate meticulous painting and perspective and realism in western painting. The Buddha statues he painted are as good as Dharma, with both form and spirit, clean Dojo and solemn statutes, which not only won the joy and admiration of Buddhist believers, but also won the praise and encouragement of many artists at home and abroad.