【Calligraphy copybook】Zhao Mengfu's Heart Sutra Author: Zhao Mengfu Publisher: Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House

Contents:

The Heart Sutra of Prajnaparamita, in running script, in album binding, three leaves. The first is a line drawing of Guanyin Bodhisattva painted by a Qing Dynasty artist, and the last is a line drawing of Weituo painted by a Qing Dynasty artist and a postscript by Wang Xideng of the Ming Dynasty, signed by Zhang Ying of the Qing Dynasty, and postscripts by Zhang Zhao, Wang Youdun, Li Zongwan and others of the Qing Dynasty. Each single leaf is 28.8 cm long and 1.8 cm wide. This album was originally collected by Zhang Ruoai of the Qing Dynasty, with seals such as "Lianxue Appraisal" and "Qinglan Jushi". It was brought into the imperial palace during the Qianlong period, and has seals of Emperor Qianlong, Emperor Jiaqing and Emperor Xuantong. It was originally a hand scroll, but after entering the Qing Palace, it was changed into an album leaf and added with sandalwood carved plywood. It is recorded in "Secret Palace Pearl Forest Continued Edition". It is now in the Liaoning Provincial Museum. This work was written by Zhao and presented to Monk Zhongfeng. Zhongfeng's Dharma name was Mingben, and his aliases were Huanjia, Huanan, Zhongfeng, etc. He was a high monk in the Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Renzong of the Yuan Dynasty once bestowed the title of Buddhist Ci Yuanzhao Guanghui Zen Master. After his death, he was posthumously named Master Puying. Zhongfeng was nine years younger than Zhao Mengfu, but Zhao was very respectful to Zhongfeng. Since the Northern Dynasties, Buddhists often wrote sutras themselves or hired people to write sutras for merit, but the sutras were all written in regular script. Zhao Mengfu used running script and the Heart Sutra, which was a pioneering example in the writing of sutras.