Earth Nucleus 'Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva'

This is a detail from one of the paintings I have been working on. Kshitigarbha is one of the four most important Buddhist figures in China and there is a mountain dedicated to him in Central China.

A Late Friday Night

August 22nd 2015
I am a little dozy today. We stayed up talking until 3:00 last night. Overall it was a bit of a lazy day yesterday with some good work getting done despite the growing humidity outside. Lunch was at my favourite Tibetan restaurant. My best friend of 40 years showed up and joined us. He normally lives between India and Chengdu spending some months each year in both places. Unfortunately another goo ... read more

Asia » China » Sichuan » Chengdu

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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