Soul Painter

Gao Fan can only paint Buddha heads now.

　　 So he painted the Buddha's head on other lay persons.

　　 "Lady Gao Fan, what did you paint?"

　　 At this time, a voice rang from behind.

　　 Gao Fan turned his head and saw that it was Miao Chan, then opened his sketch book and showed Miao Chan the sketch.

This is a painting of a Buddha. The Buddha held one high hand, surrounded by golden light on his back, and a lotus throne under his feet. The brushwork is very delicate, but Miao Chan looked at something wrong, especially the face, which has obvious simple features of working people. Strong combat power, unlike a Buddha, but like a people's soldier.

　　 "What is the prototype of this painting of the layman?" Miao Chan asked.

　　 "The eldest sister who has only one thumb left at the construction site." Gao Fan said.

　　 "This is not a Buddha." Miao Chan shook his head.

　　 "Why?" Gao Fan looked at his paintings, there are golden lights and lotus flowers, very Buddha.

　　 "Buddha has thirty-two aspects and eighty kinds of accompaniment." Miao Chan said, "If you meet these, you can be a Buddha."

Ah? Gao Fan wondered.

　　...

　　 At the reminder of Miao Chan, Gao Fan studied Buddhist paintings in particular.

The meaning of 　　Buddha painting naturally means ‘Portrait of Buddha’.

　　 But in the early days, very early, probably in the fifth and sixth centuries BC, Buddhism believed that the image of Sakyamuni Buddha was indescribable.

　　It is impossible to depict the image of Buddha by all artistic methods.

　　 So early depictions of Buddha used symbolic means, such as **, treasure tree, bodhi tree, Buddha's footprints and so on.

About a thousand years later, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, there were famous Buddhist painting artists, such as Gu Kaizhi, Cao Zhongda, Zhang Sengyou, etc. However, most of the works of these painters were painted in temples. For thousands of years, Some silk scrolls can still be preserved, but the temples are not one. The works of these Buddhist painters are extremely rare in the world.

　　 Legend has it that Gu Kaizhi made the Vimalakirti statue. After the sun was lightened, the temple was illuminated for a day, which was amazing.

　　 Since then, there have been very rules for the statues of Buddhas. For example, Buddha statues must be from the Tibetan scriptures. Buddhas have thirty-two aspects and eighty kinds of accompaniment. They cannot be created by themselves.

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"The thirty-two statues of the Buddha, the first, the peaceful phase, must have flat feet, which means that the feet are stable, the second phase, the thousand wheels, the soles of the feet are like palm prints giving birth to a thousand wheels, and the Buddha has a wheel. , Step on it, the appearance is clear, third, the fingers are long, the fourth fingers are soft, and the fifth hand-foot-man nets are the membranes between the fingers..."

　　 Gao Fan studies the thirty-two aspects of the Buddha and eighty kinds of accompanying goodness.

　　 The more I study, the more weird I feel.

　　 Buddhism first thought that the Buddha was indescribable, and then formulated various regulations for Buddha statues.

　　 The regulations are so fine that they must have flat feet and webbed fingers.

　　 This is not a human image, right?

　　Who can grow like this?

　　 So where did this image come from?

　　...

　　 And, at this point in time when the Buddha went from "intangible" to "phase", can it match the time when Lao Tzu went west?

　　 At this point, Gao Fan suddenly had a weird thought. Could it be that the Buddha was originally an ‘indescribable’ great existence, and then Laozi went west and gave him ‘what’s wrong,’ which made the Buddha look like?

　　 Therefore, instead of waiting to pass the test of the inspirational Buddha and reveal the true body that can be depicted to him, it is better to take the initiative to attack and follow this handed down Buddhist painting secrets to speculatively depict the appearance of the Buddha.

　　...

　　 Under the light of the main Zen room of the Daku Temple.

　　 Gao Fan began to draw the portrait of the Buddha according to the appearance of the Buddha.

Thirty-two aspects describe the rules of the hands, feet, body, shoulders, teeth and even the underarms. Eighty Hao has more refined these rules, and at the same time described the Buddha's walking rituals, but Gao Fan found that it is more difficult for him to draw These one hundred and twelve image features are on the same body painting.

　　 Because these one hundred and twelve details also include sounds, movements, aromas, and so on.

Of course, the Buddha paintings in this world do not say that they must focus on thirty-two phases and eighty phases in one phase. This is more of a norm, which must be met, but not all need to be achieved. I believe that there are many Buddha paintings throughout the ages. , No one has reached this perfect state...

　　 "No, Gu Kaizhi may have reached it, so the Buddha he painted will shine." Gao Fan pondered.

　　 There is no reason for this inference, it is that Gao Fan’s persistence in painting is at work, and his inspiration tells him that these rules must have a reason.

　　 Maybe according to this rule, and then install the Buddha head that he already knows how to draw, and the whole Buddha will appear.

　　 kind of... awkward.

　　 The head of the Buddha is very delicate, very real, and very Zen.

　　 Other details don’t match the Buddha's head. Although they are all drawn by Gao Fan, don’t distort it.

　　 When Gao Fan painted the head of the Buddha, the bronze bell in the Daku Temple even rang.

　　 Obviously, the image of the Buddha in his inspiration can be connected with the Zen of the ‘first dojo in the world’ of Daku Temple, to have this miraculous image.

　　 Except for the head of the Buddha, the details of the other Buddha statues are fabricated and not mysterious.

　　 Next, he pieced together these details again and again.

　　 seems to piece together an ancient secret.

　　 I don’t know how many times it has been.

When Gao Fan finally cheated in his mind, he took out the color that would not exist in the world, painted the golden light behind the Buddha statue, let the viewer feel the mighty virtue, and expressed the structure that could not be presented by a piece of drawing paper. The dragon and elephant on the side of the Buddha accompany each other, a guard of honour that the world surrenders...

　　 Gao Fan saw the Buddha in his own fantasy.

　　 Its head is like an auspicious cloud, its body is like a jade, and its feet are on golden lotus. It has golden light on its back, and hundreds of millions of believers follow closely behind it.

　　 At this time, the Buddha turned and became Lao Tzu. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

　　Haha~ Buddha is Tao!

　　 At this moment, Gao Fan used this painting as a ceremony to connect the hearts of 400 million Buddhist believers around the world. He once again stood at the pinnacle of painting skills...

　　 Gao Fan Da Le.

　　 Then he fell from the bed to the ground.

　　 listening to the wake-up bell of the Great Ku Temple at two o'clock in the morning, I didn't know where I was.

　　 The bell sounded melodiously, and gradually called back the soul of Gao Fan.

　　 He got up suddenly, put on his clothes, opened the door, and came to the outside of the meditation room. He grabbed Miao Chan and said excitedly: "Abbot! Abbot! I see the Buddha!"

　　 "Hehe." Miao Chan stroked Gao Fan's head, "Dreaming?"

"No! I really saw the Buddha. He has thirty-two aspects and eighty kinds of companions. He has golden light behind his back and dragon elephants around him. Everywhere he goes, he submits himself to the world!" Gao Fan said, "He is a god! Yes!"

　　 "Buddha is not a god, nor is it a Tao..." The boat on the side couldn't help interrupting Gao Fan. Are the two systems good?

　　 Miao Chan waved his hand to sign the boat not to speak, “God and Buddha are both the sustenance of the human soul and the enlightenment of the unknown in the world. Haven’t the sages said that God is the Tao, the Tao is natural, and the Tathagata.”

　　 "That sentence is from a TV series." Qinzhou muttered.

　　 "As long as you are right, it doesn't matter where he comes from." Miao Chan said.

　　 Then Miao Chan said to Gao Fan, "Does the layman know how to paint Buddha?"

　　 "Hmm..." Gao Fan thought for a while and shook his head, "I can paint in my dream, but I forgot now."