{"product_id":"500-arhats-324","title":"Five Hundred Arhats No.324 · The Venerable Lamp as Guide | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Zen Buddhist Figure Painting | 100×50cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive Hundred Arhats · No.324 The Venerable Lamp as Guide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lamp as guide' means taking the bright lamp of wisdom as vanguard, acting as a guide for beings in the dark, leading them out of the lost path; the name marks one who uses the wisdom-lamp as guide, breaking darkness and pointing out delusion. The venerable makes a lamp-holding or pointing gesture with an alert look, possessing the awareness of the lamp as guide, wisdom-lamp breaking dark, pointing the lost way, serving beings as a vanguard of light.\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":47410932416700,"sku":"TCArhats324","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/6291\/0652\/files\/TCArhats324--100x50cm-4.5.jpg?v=1788611719","url":"https:\/\/treascol.com\/en-uk\/products\/500-arhats-324","provider":"Treasure Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}