Reading a Sutra by Moonlight 17th century Sokuhi Nyoitsu (Jifei Ruyi) Japanese The Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi (1592–1673), known in Japan as Ingen Ryōki, came to Japan in 1654, where he introduced a style of Chan, or Zen, Buddhism and spread Ming-dynasty culture. He built a temple called Manpukuji near Kyoto, and his school was known as the Ōbaku sect after a mountain near the temple site. Sokuhi Nyoichi (Chinese: Jifei Ruyi) was among the group of monks who accompanied Ingen Ryūki. Together, his painting and calligraphy express the profundity found in the quotidian rhythms of Zen monastic li
Reading a Sutra by Moonlight 17th century Sokuhi Nyoitsu (Jifei Ruyi) Japanese The Chinese monk Yinyuan Longqi (1592–1673), known in Japan as Ingen Ryōki, came to Japan in 1654, where he introduced a style of Chan, or Zen, Buddhism and spread Ming-dynasty culture. He built a temple called Manpukuji near Kyoto, and his school was known as the Ōbaku sect after a mountain near the temple site. Sokuhi Nyoichi (Chinese: Jifei Ruyi) was among the group of monks who accompanied Ingen Ryūki. Together, his painting and calligraphy express the profundity found in the quotidian rhythms of Zen monastic life. The poem reads: Moon and white paper are ofone pupil of the eye and the inkare both marvelous meaning, lodgedin the circle,Is beyond Reading a Sutra by Moonlight 49067
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