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This painting depicts Guanyin Bodhisattva leading a deceased soul to the Pure Land in the west, a very common theme among Buddhist devotees. Many people, Buddhist and otherwise, call upon Guanyin when facing difficulties. The portrayal of the figures also has some affinities with the Tang style (618-907) seen in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang (Gansu) in the northwestern China, the most important repository of Buddhist cave art in the world. It highlights the early Tang artistic style preserved in the Dunhuang Buddhist cave-temples. It achieves an exquisite synthesis of foreign influences balanced with Chinese aesthetic values.

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Artist and His Painting

Zhang Jiying developed her own interest and her own distinctive style in painting Buddhist images. After graduating from Chengdu Fine Arts Academy in 1994, she assumed a position as an illustrator in the Peoples Publishing House for Illustrated Narratives in Chengdu. She recently retired and, as an independent artist, devotes her time mostly to Buddhist figure painting. Her Buddhist paintings have been collected by Chinese museums and private collectors, and are well received in Chengdu and Beijing. Buddhist paintings by Zhang from the Khara Khoto Collection, currently housed at St. Petersburg, showcase her mastery of traditional Chinese art methods. Her reproductions of Buddhist paintings can be found in our Chinese Art Gallery under Classical Chinese Paintings. 

Buddhist Paintings offered at WEI YANG ART consists of the highest-quality hand-painted Buddhist paintings from the Silk Road. Most of our Buddhist paintings are based on wall paintings in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang (Gansu province) in northwestern China. They were painted by the school-trained professional artsits currently employed by Dunhuang Research Academy. We also offer Buddhist paintings in the styles of famous ancient Buddhist art currently held in the British Museum (London), the Musée Guimet (Paris), and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg). We assure you that every Buddhist painting we offer was individually hand-painted by an accomplished artist who signed the work.