Portrait of the Monk Ciming Chanshi
Portrait of the Monk Ciming Chanshi

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Portrait of the Monk Ciming Chanshi,

1189 (stone); late 19th to first half of 20th century (rubbing)

Chinese
Song dynasty, 960–1279
y1958-146

Information

Title
Portrait of the Monk Ciming Chanshi
Dates

1189 (stone); late 19th to first half of 20th century (rubbing)

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink rubbing on paper
Dimensions
image: 83 x 58.8 cm. (32 11/16 x 23 1/8 in.) 103.8 x 62.7 cm. (40 7/8 x 24 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Rowley
Object Number
y1958-146
Place Made

Asia, China

Inscription
慈明禪師自賛 吾真非真，良工[悞a]邈。 水月寒潭，可雕可琢。 隨機兮忽，長忽短應。 器兮有清，有濁僧瑤。 僧瑤頭角，頭角日出。 兮西山月，沒兮東嶽。 石霜慈明祖師真相 得之湘源好事君子予 命工摹刊於石庶傳 無窮耳淳熙己酉[1189]季夏 住湘山六世孫守詵謹記 “. . . Reverently recorded in the last month of summer in the jiyou cyclical year of the Chunxi reign by [monk] Shoushen, the sixth-generation descendant [of Shixiang Chuyuan] residing at Xiangshan.” a Written as 懊 in the record of this inscription in Xie Qikun 謝啓昆 (1737-1802), Yuexi jinshi lüe 粵西金石略 (Tonggu ting 銅鼓亭, 1801), juan 9, p. 20a, which also notes that the pictorial stone was carved at Xiangshan Si 湘山寺 temple, Guilin 桂林 city, Quanzhou 全州 county, Guangxi province.
Culture
Chinese
Period
Song
Type
rubbings
Subject
figures (representations), portraits

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