IAMA Art Museum in San Francisco

HARBINGER OF SPRING

Artist: H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

CALLIGRAPHY

From ancient times to the present, no product of an art or field of study has been able to reflect a person’s moral character and knowledge---except for calligraphy. The aura created by a person’s achievements or creations in a certain form of art or field of study often covers up his shortcomings in knowledge and character. However, calligraphy is an exception to this rule. Calligraphy is like a three-dimensional projecting mirror. The depth of one’s knowledge, the level of one’s moral character, and the strength of one’s mind are revealed through each stroke of the brush. There is no way to conceal such things. When looking at the quality of a person’s ordinary writing of Chinese characters, most people can discern the level of that person’s education. This is all the more true with respect to looking at a person’s calligraphy.

When that poem was written, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was living in the seclusion of an ancient temple. His Holiness used his extraordinary realization to express his thoughts and feelings. The first line expresses that although His Holiness lived alone and secluded in the room of a temple, He governed the universe and bestowed blessings upon living beings. Thus, the first line reads, “hua gong ri yue li yang tian.”

從古至今找不到哪一個不具學識的人可以在書道上有所建樹的。學識淵博不一定精具書道，但大書家必是學問書風雙胞共存。尤凡歷代書道大家，無一不是出於淵深學識之文學巨匠。如古有王羲之、懷素、何紹基、 張懷瓘、岳飛，近有于右任等，個個都是學富五車的大文學家，道德文章之楷模。

 

學識為書之棟樑，書之基石; 德為書之格調，書之神韻，故書法必具雙胞學體。多杰羌佛第三世雲高益西諾布頂聖如來的書法，脫俗無華，格高境妙。時而龍蛇走筆，轉鋒又童心天趣，平中見奇，飄逸自如，渾厚華滋。行墨連綿，氣韻暢達，字勢或雄渾矯健如龍躍天門，虎臥鳳闕; 或清新和雅如浮雲飄冉，鶴翔松間; 或樸拙率真，孩心無執。脫盡輕鮮煙火之氣，收斂內含，俗 染浮雜已然蕩盡! 正是『天質自然，韻達性海，故柔中見剛，華而清奇。』

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