Chinese Monumental Rosewood Slab with Carved Guanyin, Buddha Symbol and The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, by Shou, Republic Period, dated 1943

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  Incredible statement masterpiece - heavy hand carved solid rosewood slab, on custom made natural fitting root stand, depicting in high-relief Goddess of Mercy Guanyin with praying beads standing on a rock with her clothes running in the wind, natural rosewood grains masterfully carved to emphasised sacred radiant shining around her; "inscribed in the Gui Wei Year (1943) by Shou (Lifespan) (Note: This character might be inscribed with the author’s personal style)". Hand carved with gold finish large Buddha character atop, natural rosewood grains masterfully carved to emphasised sacred radiant shining around it; perfectly hand carved with gold finish The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (from right to left) : "When the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara had deeply understood the Supreme Wisdom, he realized that the five skandhas (aggregates) making up a person were an illusion, with which he was delivered from all sorrow and suffering. Oh Shariputra (one of the wise disciples of the Buddha), the material form is no different from the void of shapeless emptiness, and vice versa. The material form is the same as emptiness, and vice versa. The other aggregates (sensation, discrimination, thinking, consciousness) all are the same way. Oh Shariputra, everything is that way: neither begun nor ended, neither impure nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing. So there is no material form, sensation, discrimination, thinking, or consciousness within the void. There is not whatever shown us by our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body or mind, and there is no form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or reasoning. There are no sensation from sight to consciousness, or links from ignorance, and its ending to old age and death, and their ending. There are even no “Four Noble Truths”, nor wisdom, nor attainment. As there is no attainment, Bodhisattvas, who rely on Supreme Wisdom, having unworried hearts, being without hindrance, fear, or transcend illusion to reach highest Nirvana. Because all Buddhas of the three ages “past, present, and future” rely on Supreme Wisdom, they attained “unsurpassed, complete, and perfect enlightenment”. Thus we know that the mantra of Supreme Wisdom is an unsurpassed, yet unequalled mantra of consummate splendor, which is truly able to relieve all suffering and never false. It should be spoken saying: GaTe, GaTe (Go! Go!) Para GaTe (Go completely beyond!) Para Saṃ GaTe (To enlightenment.)" View and Bid on AspireAuctions.com

  Condition

  Very good overall, as is, natural rosewood slab, soils and dust, repair with adhesive residues to one root on stand.