Characters - Pinching Gautama’s Nose
Ink on paper
禪偈 木庵性瑫
台灣
此偈《直捏瞿曇鼻》，顯然係呵佛罵祖之一轉語，用以破除學人之執著。「瞿曇」為佛的別名。
木庵禪師書學趙孟頫，後不專一家，以圓勁雄渾見稱，與師父隱元隆琦、同門即非如一並稱為「黃檗三筆」。木庵喜用粗筆單行揮灑，氣韻豪邁，頗有禪門當頭棒喝之氣概，間以飛白，並習慣配以一行細瘦的連綿草款書「黃檗木庵書」，組成一幅獨特的畫面。
木庵性瑫號木庵，晉江（今福建晉江）人。十九歲出家，三十四歲遇隱元禪師，後成為其弟子。四十五歲時應隱元隆琦之請，前往日本長崎福濟寺，五十四歲受命繼隱元住持黃檗山萬福寺，大振宗風，成為黃檗宗第二世祖。之後增建萬福寺，開創瑞聖寺等十所寺院，對傳播黃檗宗最為有力。
參考釋文：直捏瞿曇鼻／黃檗木庵書
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy, page 28.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Characters - Pinching Gautama’s Nose." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , vol. 17, 2016, pp. 28.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Gary Edson. 2016. "Characters - Pinching Gautama’s Nose" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , 17:28.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Edson, G.. (2016). Characters - Pinching Gautama’s Nose. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy (Vol. 17, pp. 28).
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