{"product_id":"500-arhats-329","title":"Five Hundred Arhats No.329 · The Venerable Virtue and Wondrous Dharma | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Zen Buddhist Figure Painting | 100×50cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive Hundred Arhats · No.329 The Venerable Virtue and Wondrous Dharma\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Virtue and wondrous Dharma' means being adorned with merit and skilled in teaching the wondrous Dharma, virtue the ground of Dharma and Dharma the function of virtue, each sustaining the other and both excellent; the name marks one excellent in both, expounding Dharma through virtue. The venerable makes a teaching gesture with a warm look, possessing the warmth of merit-adornment, skill in wondrous teaching, virtue and Dharma sustaining each other, expounding the wondrous through personally realized virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSize: approx. 100×50cm (4.5 square chi) | Traditional hand-painted Chinese ink Zen Buddhist figure painting | On paper\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Treascol Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47410932580540,"sku":"TCArhats329","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/6291\/0652\/files\/TCArhats329--100x50cm-4.5.jpg?v=1788611718","url":"https:\/\/treascol.com\/en-au\/products\/500-arhats-329","provider":"Treasure Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}