Title: Zen and Taoist Ideas:the origin of the spiritual world of Chinese painting
Abstract:Arising from different cultural backgrounds,the thoughts of Zen and Zhuang Zi(a representative of Taoism) belong to different cultural areas.When introduced to China from India,Zen,at the beginning,co...Arising from different cultural backgrounds,the thoughts of Zen and Zhuang Zi(a representative of Taoism) belong to different cultural areas.When introduced to China from India,Zen,at the beginning,couldn't adapt itself to Chinese native culture.Then it tried to adapt itself to cater for the Chinese cultural values.And further it found a linking spot in the thoughts of Confucius and Zhuang Zi,(especially in Zhuang Zi).It also looked for the covering surface and became the Zen and Taoist ideas which are hard to be divided.The aesthetic foundation of Chinese paintings,in its developing process,is based on the ideas of Zen and Taoism.Its aesthetic object has changed from attention to the God and Buddhism into that to the nature,society and human beings.After the enrichment and creation by masters of different periods the realm of the ideas of Zen and Taoism becomes more far-reaching and broader.If Chinese painting and Zen and Taoism are separated from each other,Chinese painting would lose spiritual reliance and have no way to develop.Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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