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Lu Shoukun
1974
Chinese Poem on Zen Meditation
Feiyin Tongrong
mid-17th century
The Quick Pictorial Dictionary (Ehon hayabiki) 画本早引
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
1819
Zen Trees #2
Matt Saunders
2017–18
Portrait of a Zen Master
Japan
15th century
Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Chinese: Damo)
China
17th century
Zen Koan on Cypress Trees
Jiun Onkō
late 18th century
Chinese Poem on Fishing and Zen
Ōsen Keisan 横川景山
late 15th century
Handscroll of Calligraphy by Ōbaku Zen Monks
Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)
mid-17th to mid-18th century
Zen Saying by Dahui Zonggao on the Passage of Time
Jakushitsu Genkō
early 14th century
Zen Master with Meditation Staff, and Chinese-Style Landscapes
Unkoku Tōeki
probably late 1620s–1644
The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment
Kano Tan'yū
1635–45
Cold Mountain Series, Zen Study 5 (Early State)
Brice Marden
1990
Portrait of the Ōbaku Zen Monk Jifei Ruyi (Sokuhi Nyoitsu)
Kita Genki
1666
Portrait of the Ōbaku Zen Monk Mu’an Xingtao (Mokuan Shōtō)
Kita Genki
dated 1674
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”
Musō Soseki
early to mid-14th century
Gibbons in a Landscape
Sesson Shūkei 雪村周継
ca. 1570
Bodhidharma in meditation
China
17th century
A Little Zen
Helen Frankenthaler
1970
“One Hundred Flowers of Spring”
Ryōkan Taigu
early 19th century
“Kanzan” (Hanshan)
Inoue Yūichi
1966
Illustration of Steam Locomotive Tracks at Takanawa, from the series Famous Places in Tokyo (Tōkyō meishō Takanawa-jōki kikansha no zen zu)
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
1872
Zen Buddist Monk Bowing
Sheldon Brody
ca. 1961
Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
Jifei Ruyi (Sokuhi Nyoitsu)
17th century, after 1661
Ten Verses on Oxherding
Japan
1278
Bestowing the Buddhist Name “Fumyō”
Ichidon Shōzui
1425
Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha
Unidentified artist
ca. 1383
Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan
China (for Japanese market)
mid-17th century
Critiquing the Reliance on Koans
Tōkei Sōboku
late 15th–early 16th century
Chinese Poem Extolling a Reclusive Lifestyle
Jakugon Taijō
mid-18th century
Sacred Verse (Gāthā) from the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Engaku-kyō)
Zekkai Chūshin
ca. 1380s–1405
Chinese Poem about a Bamboo Grove
Ryōkan Taigu
early 19th century
Passage from an Inscription on Trust in the Mind (Xinxinming)
Jiun Onkō
late 18th century
Monju on a Lion
Shūsei
late 15th century
Seated Arhat
Shōun Genkei
1688–95
“Udumbara Flowers” (Udonge) Temple Plaque
Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)
carved 1741
Square Dish with Landscape and Poem
Kiyomizu Rokubei V
1929
Daoist Master Fei Zhangfang
Sesson Shūkei
ca. 1555–61
Zheng Huangniu and Yushanzhu
Kano Naizen
early 17th century
Cicada on a Grapevine
Bokurin Guan
late 14th–early 15th century