Exhibition Opening | 7:30pm on Friday, 28.8.26
The idea for a series of pencil portraits of Buddhist Teachers arose from the author’s desire to express, in the language of traditional Western pencil drawing, what he felt while looking at photographs and videos of Dharma Teachers—their boundless kindness and love, patience, and compassion radiating from their images. The author primarily wanted to depict those Teachers who influenced him as a follower of Buddha dharma through reading books, listening to audio recordings, and watching videos.
These were Teachers of various traditions: Theravada, Japanese and Vietnamese Zen, and various Vajrayana schools. After some time, the author realized that there were many Teachers whose portraits he wanted to paint, so the idea arose to paint 108 portraits through which the author wants to convey to the viewer the light that emanates from these Teachers, and perhaps his works will be able to inspire some of the viewers to meet one of them personally, and awaken interest in the Precious Words of Buddha.
