Couplet of Chinese Verse on Spiritual Enlightenment Feiyin Tongrong Chinese 1656 This single-column of dynamic, rapidly and fluidly brushed, faintly angled Chinese characters in cursive script comprises a Buddhist adage, composed in a couplet of five-character verse. It can be deciphered and translated as follows:???????????Chinese pronunciation: Lingji huopopo, toutuo rendang renParsing in Japanese:?????????????????????????.A surge in inspirationwith untrammeled vitality—Enlightenment depends on each person’s own efforts.(Translated by Tim Zhang)The term lingji (Japanese: reiki) ?? suggests i
Couplet of Chinese Verse on Spiritual Enlightenment Feiyin Tongrong Chinese 1656 This single-column of dynamic, rapidly and fluidly brushed, faintly angled Chinese characters in cursive script comprises a Buddhist adage, composed in a couplet of five-character verse. It can be deciphered and translated as follows:???????????Chinese pronunciation: Lingji huopopo, toutuo rendang renParsing in Japanese:?????????????????????????.A surge in inspirationwith untrammeled vitality—Enlightenment depends on each person’s own efforts.(Translated by Tim Zhang)The term lingji (Japanese: reiki) ?? suggests inspired wisdom and in early Daoist texts has the connotation of a supernatural experience. In Chan teaching, enlightenment is something that each person must strive for through their own diligent religious practice including meditation and study with a characters in the right column, unusually written in characters as large as the main text, give the date the work was brushed: mid-spring of the bingshen year (1656). On the left, also in large characters, is the monk Feiyin Tongrong’s lengthy signature, mentioning that he composed this work while at Jingshan monastery in Hangzhou. Feiyin is declaring in this his signature that he belongs to the thirty-fifth generation of the Nanyue sect. View more. Couplet of Chinese Verse on Spiritual Enlightenment. Feiyin Tongrong (Chinese, 1593–1661) (Japanese: Hiin Ts?y?) ????,. Japan. 1656. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Calligraphy
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