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Lotus/Lotus Sutra

Bernice Bing1986

Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, United States

In 1984, Bing studied for six weeks at the China Art Academy in Hangzhou with renowned abstract calligrapher Wang Dongling. The titles of several of these paintings suggest that Bing was imagining the wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, one of the most influential Buddhist scriptures. Scholar Lin Ma has documented that Bing’s personal Buddhist practice was Nichiren—a Japanese form of Buddhism drawing its basic doctrine from the Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經).

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  • Title: Lotus/Lotus Sutra
  • Creator: Bernice Bing
  • Date Created: 1986
  • Medium: Mixed media on rag paper
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of Bernice Bing, FF2020.25.4
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