Calling of Prototype Image-Artistic Creation and Salvation Process after Life Transformation—A Case Study of Artistic Value of Xia Jing Shan’s Buddha Painting

Neih, Ya-Ting


Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Chang Jung Christian University


Master Xia Jing Shan’s Buddhist arts and life present the aesthetics of painting and calligraphy of a Buddhism practitioner. Xia Jing Shan paints not only the surface but images full of life experience and meaning. That is the presentation of life-long practices. On...

The Unstrained – Inheriting and Exploring Song Muqi’s Paintings in the Southern Song Dynasty by Xia Jing Shan’s ‘White-robed Guan Yin’

Wu Hui-Chun


Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Instructor, Department of Chinese Literature, Shih Hsin University


Xia Jing Shan became a Buddhist lay disciple under Dharma Master Nanting in 1950 and vowed to dedicate his body and mind to Buddhism by devoting to Buddhist teachings and following the Bodhisattva way of life. Buddhist portraits take up a big part of Xia Jing Shan’s...
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