Here we find the common motifs of cliffs, rocky outcrops, pavilions, and a lone figure crossing a bridge.
Zen art
A Broken Broom, a Tattered Scripture
One is the Bodhisattva of the Great Path, The other the Patriarch of the Great Buddha. What evidence is there?
From Academy to Chan: Liang Kai
This last of the four Southern Song Academy masters is shown as providing a bridge between that tradition and the new kind of painting associated with Chan (Zen) Buddhism: why it was preserved almost entirely in Japan and scarcely at all in China. Film 72 minutes
Shakyamuni and Attendant Bodhisattvas
The intimate scale, informality of the figures’ poses, and landscape setting link the painting to Chan-style depictions of Shakyamuni — the human origin of the Buddha — as an ascetic descending from the mountains just prior to achieving Buddhahood…
Mishima Pass, Mount Fuji, and the Towering Cypress, by Katsushika Hokusai
Even Mount Fuji in the distance is dwarfed by the monumental tree…
