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Hebei
artisan creates monasteries and Buddha images with cloth
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Hebei handicraft maestro Teng Teng
has created a "Buhu monastery" with a unique craft he invented --- the Buhu
picture. All the Buddha statues, wall paintings and offerings in the monastery
were made of cloth. The work, which took two years of work by 42 people,
is now preserved at the Fengning Longteng Arts Gallery in Hebei.
"Teng's Buhu pictures" were invented by Teng Teng, now 69, after ten years
of exploration. His new technique incorporates the crafts of painting, sculpture,
embroidery, paper-pasting and paper-cutting. The Buhu monastery has a Main
Altar and an altar for the guardian gods of the heavens. The altars feature
the Buddhas of the past, present and future, the 18 Arhats and the four
guardian gods of the heavens as well as temple features such as the Buddha's
aura of light, the lotus foundation, jewel throne, tables and receptables
for the offerings, wall paintings, inscriptions and painted columns. |
