Letter of Praise and a Request from Shen Liao
Ink on paper
想望顏采帖 沈遼
中國
此卷凡八行，共八十七字。卷末書明受信者，信中先言仰慕受信者了悟禪機之風采智慧，後又欲借其製作之《法華解》，推敲內容，是寄與德識僧家者。
沈遼字睿達，錢塘（今浙江杭州）人，精於詩詞歌賦，尤善書法，為宋代（960～1279）重要書家，米芾曾評其書云：「沈遼排字」。就沈遼傳世作品看來，其粗細相間而刻意排比的風貌，一如米芾所評所述。然此卷或應寄贈禪家之故，其大小錯落有奇崛樸拙之趣，頗有逸趣，品質遠出沈遼其他傳世諸作。
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Hsingyun, et al. "Letter of Praise and a Request from Shen Liao." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , vol. 17, 2016, pp. 131.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Gary Edson. 2016. "Letter of Praise and a Request from Shen Liao" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , 17:131.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Edson, G.. (2016). Letter of Praise and a Request from Shen Liao. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy (Vol. 17, pp. 131).
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