Hakuin Kannon

Hakuin

Ten-Verse Life-Prolonging Kannon Sutra
Kanzeon! Hail to Buddha!
We are one with Buddha,
Bound to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
We are always joyful and pure,
In the morning, thinking of Kanzeon,
In the evening, thinking of Kanzeon,
Continuous thoughts of her rise from our hearts,
Those thoughts never leave our hearts.

Kanreki, Year of the Wood Pig [1754], Summer.

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Dimensions: 8x34

Purchase Ref #: 3116

Gallery: Hakuin

Scroll Notes: The scroll comes with its original inexpensive paper mounting. It's still in one piece despite hanging for centuries in home altars. Somehow the bottom characters of the third and forth lines disappeared long ago and were brushed back in.

This is a small woodblock print of a painting of Kannon by Hakuin. The block was carved from a Hakuin painting done in the summer of 1754. Although thousands of these prints were made to be distributed all over the land for families to hang in their home altars, few survive. Even though the print is not an original painting, it has depth and reverence to it. The Ten-Verse Life-Prolonging Kannon Sutra is a mantra as well as a text proclaiming the unlimited compassion of Kannon. It is short, simple, and direct.

Hakuin Ekaku (c. 1685ñ1768), Zen master, painter, and poet, is perhaps the greatest figure in Japanese Zen's Rinzai school.

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