Soul Painter

Gao Fan can only paint Buddha heads now.

So he painted that Buddha head on the bodies of other laymen.

"Lady Gao Fan, what did you draw?"

At this time, a voice sounded from behind.

Gao Fan turned his head and saw that it was Miao Chan, so he opened his sketchbook and showed this sketch to Miao Chan.

This is a painting of Buddha. The Buddha raised his hand high, surrounded by golden light behind him, and has a lotus throne under his feet. The brushwork is very exquisite, but there is something wrong with Miao Chan, especially the face, which has obvious working people's simple features and Strong fighting power, not like a Buddha, but like a people's soldier.

"What is the prototype of this layman's painting?" Miao Chan asked.

"The eldest sister at the construction site has only one thumb left." Gao Fan said.

"This is not a Buddha." Miao Chan shook his head.

"Why?" Gao Fan looked at his painting, there was golden light and lotus, very Buddha.

"Buddhas have thirty-two appearances and eighty kinds of accompaniments." Miao Chan said, "A Buddha must conform to these."

ah? Gao Fan was puzzled.

...

Under Miao Chan's reminder, Gao Fan studied Buddhist paintings in particular.

The meaning of Buddhist painting is naturally 'portrait for Buddha'.

But in the early days, that is, very early days, around the fifth and sixth centuries BC, Buddhism believed that the image of Sakyamuni Buddha was indescribable.

It is impossible for all artistic means to depict the image of Buddha.

Therefore, the early depictions of Buddha used symbolic means, such as **, precious tree, bodhi tree, Buddha's footprints and so on.

About a thousand years later, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, there were famous Buddhist painters, such as Gu Kaizhi, Cao Zhongda, Zhang Sengyou, etc., but most of the works of these painters were painted in temples. Some silk scrolls can still be preserved, but none of the temples can survive, so the works of these Buddhist painters are extremely rare in the world.

It is said that the statue of Vimalakirti made by Gu Kaizhi, after lighting up the sun, illuminated the temple for a day, which is miraculous.

Since then, there have been very strict rules for statues of Buddhas. For example, Buddha statues must come from the Buddhist scriptures, and Buddhas have thirty-two appearances and eighty kinds of repertoires.

...

"Thirty-two images of the Buddha, the first one is Anping, which must have flat feet, which means that the feet are stable. The second one is the appearance of a thousand wheels. The soles of the feet are like palm prints that give birth to thousands of wheels. The Buddha has a wheel. , Step on it, the appearance is clear, third, the fingers are long, the fourth fingers are soft, the fifth hand and foot are unadorned, that is, the film between the fingers..."

Gao Fan studied the thirty-two Buddha's appearance and eighty kinds of accompanying good.

The more you study it, the weirder it becomes.

Buddhism first believed that the Buddha was indescribable, and then formulated various regulations for Buddha statues.

The regulations are so detailed that it must be flat feet and webbed fingers.

This is not a human figure, is it?

Who can grow like this.

So where did this image come from?

...

Moreover, is it possible to match the time when the Buddha went from "invisibility" to "appearance" with the time when Lao Tzu traveled westward?

At this point, Gao Fan suddenly had a strange idea, could it be that the Buddha was originally an "indescribable" great existence, and then Lao Tzu traveled west and gave him "what's the matter", which made the Buddha look like?

Therefore, instead of waiting to pass the test of the Buddha in the inspiration and revealing to him the real body that can be depicted, it is better to take the initiative and use this handed down Buddhist painting secret book to guess the appearance of the Buddha.

...

Under the light of the main meditation room of the Great Ku Temple.

Gao Fan began to draw portraits of Buddha according to his appearance.

Thirty-two phases describe the regulation of hands, feet, body, shoulders, teeth and even underarms. Bashihao elaborates these regulations and at the same time describes the walking ritual of Buddha. Gao Fan found that it was more difficult for him to draw These one hundred and twelve kinds of image features are on the same body painting.

Because these one hundred and twelve kinds of details also include sound, movement, fragrance and so on.

Of course, there is no saying that the Buddhist paintings in this world must focus on one of the thirty-two features and eighty-one features. This is more of a norm. , and no one has reached this perfect state...

"No, Gu Kaizhi may have achieved it, so the Buddha he painted will glow." Gao Fan pondered.

This deduction is unreasonable, it is Gao Fan's persistence in painting that is at work, and his inspiration tells him that there must be a reason for these rules.

Maybe according to this rule, and then install the Buddha head that he already knows how to draw, the whole Buddha will appear.

It's a little... awkward.

The Buddha head is very delicate, very real, and very Zen.

Other details don't match the Buddha's head. Although they are all drawn by Gao Fan, just don't distort them.

When Gao Fan painted the Buddha's head, the bronze bell in the Great Ku Temple would even ring.

Obviously, the image of the Buddha in his inspiration can be connected with the Zen of the Daku Temple, the 'No.

Except for the Buddha's head, the details of other Buddha statues are fabricated and not miraculous.

Next, he pieced these details together again and again.

It seems to be piecing together a secret from ancient times.

I don't know how many times.

When Gao Fan finally used cheating methods in his mind, he took out colors that would not exist in the world, and painted them into the golden light behind the Buddha statue, so that the viewers could feel the mighty virtue. On the side of the Buddha, the dragon and the elephant follow each other, a ceremonial guard of surrender...

Gao Fan saw the Buddha in his fantasy.

Its head is like auspicious clouds, its body is like pearls and jade, its feet are on golden lotus, there are golden lights on its back, and hundreds of millions of believers follow closely behind it.

But at this time, when the Buddha turned around, he became Lao Tzu.

Haha~ Buddha is Tao!

At this moment, Gao Fan used this painting as a ceremony to connect the hearts of 400 million Buddhist believers around the world. Once again, he stood at the pinnacle of painting skills...

Gao Fan is happy.

Then he fell off the bed to the floor.

Hearing the wake-up bell of Daku Temple at two o'clock in the morning, he didn't know where he was.

The melodious sound of the bell gradually recalled Gao Fan's soul.

He got up suddenly, put on his clothes, pushed open the door, came outside the meditation room, grabbed Miaochan and said excitedly: "Abbot! Abbot! I saw the Buddha!"

"Hehe." Miao Chan stroked Gao Fan's head, "Are you dreaming?"

"No! I really saw the Buddha. He has thirty-two faces and eighty kinds of entourages. There is a golden light behind him, and there are dragons and elephants around him. Everywhere he goes, the world surrenders!" Gao Fan said, "He is a god! Yes!"

"Buddha is not a god, nor is it Tao..." Qin Zhou couldn't help but interrupt Gao Fan, how about the two systems?

Miao Chan waved his hand to signal his relatives to stop talking, "Gods and Buddhas are the sustenance of the human mind and the enlightenment of the unknown world. Didn't some sages say that God is Tao, Tao follows nature, and Tathagata."

"That sentence is from a TV series." Qin Zhou muttered.

"As long as it's right, it doesn't matter where he comes from." Miao Chan said.

Then Miaochan said to Gao Fan: "Does the layman know how to paint Buddha?"

"Hmm..." Gao Fan thought for a while and shook his head, "I knew how to draw in my dreams, but I forgot about it now."