Five Hundred Arhats No.476 · The Venerable Lofty and Detached Conduct | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Zen Buddhist Figure Painting | 100×50cm

Five Hundred Arhats · No.476 The Venerable Lofty and Detached Conduct

'Lofty and detached conduct' means a lofty, free way of practice, transcending the worldly, with high and far aspiration, uniquely free, unbound by worldly ties; the name marks one lofty and beyond the dust, surpassing in conduct. The venerable makes a free gesture with a transcendent look, possessing the breadth of lofty detached practice, beyond the worldly, high aspiration, unbound by worldly ties.

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