Five Hundred Arhats No.52 · The Venerable Foremost in Realizing Emptiness | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Zen Buddhist Figure Painting | 100×50cm

Five Hundred Arhats · No.52 The Venerable Foremost in Realizing Emptiness

His name marks one whose insight into the emptiness of all phenomena is the most thorough, foremost among his peers. The venerable contemplates with focus and an open, awakened look, holding the luminous freedom of one who has fathomed the truth of emptiness and won great liberation.

Painted by Li Zongyi in the freehand Chinese ink (xieyi) tradition, the brushwork is fluent and the ink tones layered from dense to pale, capturing the arhat’s spirit in a few assured strokes. The blank paper itself breathes Zen; figure and spirit are one, blending monastic solemnity with the literati’s ease. Each of the Five Hundred Arhats bears its own name and practice, uniting faith, art and collectibility — an original, non-reproducible hand-painted work.

Size: approx. 100×50cm (4.5 square chi) | Traditional hand-painted Chinese ink Zen Buddhist figure painting | On paper