The Dance of the Zen Brush: Explore the Buddha Dharma with Zen Calligraphy Hardcover – October 3, 2023

Explore the Dharma Teachings with Zen CalligraphyThe Dance of the Zen Brush presents a selection of over fifty Zen calligraphies and paintings imbued with genuine artistic and spiritual inspiration.In this beautiful full-color Zen art book, artist calligrapher Nadja Van Ghelue takes the viewer on a spiritual journey through her own Zen calligraphy and painting. The images, along with short inspiring titles, concise phrases, or hints introduce the viewer to a specific tenet of Zen Buddhism. Each detail page of the Zen calligraphies also provides the corresponding Japanese/Chinese characters and translation.The spiritual journey in The Dance of the Zen Brush begins with the Heart Sutra, explores Prajnaparamita and her teachings, including the Diamond Sutra. The path leads to Buddha Shakyamuni, to the Zen Patriarch Bodhidharma, the Sixth Zen Patriarch Huineng and his teaching of the Platform Sutra, and ends with the Bodhisattva Vimalakirti. On this visual journey you will also encounter poetic moments, stumble into spiritual riddles, and be refreshed with a cup of tea.The artist invites the reader to fuse with these moments of creativity, intuition, and meditation and to walk the Path that unfolds in this artful Zen Brush book. Read more