Two Large Characters by Muan (Muang) Xingtao
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作者木庵性瑫
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制作年 AD17
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- モクアンショウトウヒツダイエンニダイジ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-001813-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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Muan (Muang) Xingtao （Jp. Mokuan Shoto; 1611-1684) was a priest of the Obaku lineage who lived during the early Edo Period. He originally came from Quanzhou in Fujian Province in Ming China. Entering the priesthood at the age of 19, he trained under Ingen Ryuki (Ch. Yinyuan Longqi; 1592-1673) at Mt. Huangbo (Jp. Obaku-Zan) and received certification of attaining spirited enlightenment. In the year following Ingen Ryuki’s trip to Japan (1655), Muan Xingtao (Mokuan Shoto) also came to these shores at the age of 45. He served at the Fukusaiji Temple in Nagasaki, but later went up to Mt. Obaku in Uji (Kyoto) to assist Ingen build the Mampukuji Temple, where he became the second bishop in 1664. Thereafter, he devoted himself to the preparation and maintenance of the Buddhist halls and education of the congregation. Earning deep trust from the 4th Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-1680), Mokuan Shoto was instrumental in paving the way for the heyday of the Obaku lineage in Japan. He was 74 when he died in 1684. Mokuan Shoto was lauded as one of the Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’) and was particularly excellent in the rapidly flowing semi-cursive writing style.You can see here two large simple characters denoting ‘large circle’ written dynamically across the broad paper. The large circle in Zen terminology is equivalent to the heavens and also the truth (Sk. tathataa), the Buddha nature, reality (Sk. tattrasya lakSaNam) or the truth revealed by the law.
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