Fo Guang Shan Buddha Museum

Ming and Qing Dynasties Water and Land Dharma Service Paintings.

In order to promote cross-strait exchange and religious art, the Fo Guang Shan Foundation of Buddhist Culture and Education presents the exhibition “Meeting in the Dharma -- Ming and Qing Dynasties Water and Land Dharma Service Paintings.” The exhibition showcases the paintings from northern China. The Water and Land Dharma Service in Taiwan begins after the Kuomingtang government relocated to Taiwan and follows the liturgy used in southern China. Most Taiwanese are thus foreign to the liturgy and paintings used in northern China. Hence this exhibition serves to examine the historical development of the Water and Land Dharma Service and the paintings used in the rituals during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

On display in the exhibition are primarily collections from Shanxi Museum, which are four sets of works from Baoning Temple and Taiyue, presented in either scrolls or tablets and dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The fifth set of work is a collection of paintings duplicated by artists Yao Shulong and Zhang Yongpo after Ming dynasty murals at Pilu Temple. The murals at Pilu Temple murals were listed as cultural relics in Hebei.