…So antique artists used to sculpt big feet as symbolic of the illumined man – before Greeks brought in human-face representation of Buddha. They never used to have statues of him – umbrellas, Bo-trees, or feet instead – before Alexander came to India.
From The Allen Ginsberg Project via notational
I was just visiting the Wikipedia page on the guqin too!
Bodhisattva playing the guqin
I thought this was among the most beautiful guqin-related art I’ve seen; assuming the bodhisattva is Avalokitesvara, it is all the more poignant for myself. Unfortunately guqin-centric items (paintings, statues, etc) are quite rare, otherwise I would love to have one or two.
All self-help is basically Buddhism with a service mark.
— Merlin Mann
