{"id":76443,"date":"2025-07-20T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/?p=76443"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:38:04","slug":"h-h-dorje-chang-buddha-iiis-paintings-sell-for-tens-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabuddhists.org\/en\/h-h-dorje-chang-buddha-iiis-paintings-sell-for-tens-of-millions\/thus-have-i-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III\u2019s Paintings Sell for Tens of Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Reposted from\u00a0Thus Have I Seen<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche p.170-173<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In case any proof was needed of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III\u2019s accomplishments in the Craftsmanship Vidya, you could look at the art market\u2019s response to His work. The paintings of the Buddha Master have been selling for millions of dollars for decades. In May 2000 a very large painting of a lion and two cubs titled \u201cMajesty\u201d sold for $2,125,327 at an international auction followed by the sale of another large painting of an Arhat \u201cVenerable Da Li Wang (Sadapralapa)\u201d in October of that same year for $2,207,912. I know of four museums built to display his paintings to the public: near where He was born in Sichuan Province China, in Hong Kong, and in San Francisco and Covina, California in the US.38<\/a><\/sup> More recently in 2015, two smaller paintings sold for much more at Gianguan Auctions in New York City. The small mounted ink-on-paper painting titled \u201cInk Lotus\u201d sold for $16,500,000 to an anonymous American buyer (FIGURE 70) while \u201cLoquat,\u201d a composition of colored ink washes, calligraphy, poetry, and prose sold for $10,200,000. The Buddha Master\u2019s wife, Dr. Yuhua Shouzhi Wang, is also an internationally acclaimed artist with a grand exhibition of her paintings at the Louvre in Paris, France in 2019. She also sold the ink painting titled \u201cPomegranates in a Bamboo Basket\u201d for $1.27 million that year.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 One of my favorites and the first painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that I ever saw was a copy of a stunning painting of Kuan (Guan) Yin Bodhisattva that my acupuncturist had in Asheville, North Carolina. In fact, it was Doctor Kuai who introduced me to the works of Master Wan Ko Yee, as He was then known. I am sure that seeing that painting helped convince me to learn more about and eventually follow H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Years later I was able to see an original of that painting when I was with the Buddha Master in California. I am not sure it was the exact same image, because I believe He painted several versions. It was amazing. You could see every hair on the Bodhisattva\u2019s head, or it appeared that way. I remember how impressed I was with the detailed brushwork. We have another copy of that painting hanging in our main Buddha Hall at our temple in Sanger. I also remember seeing a large and very detailed embroidery of that image that someone had done in China as a tribute to the Buddha Master. This painting of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva (FIGURE 71) and both of the two paintings mentioned above that sold for millions in China are all featured in the Big Blue Treasure book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III<\/em> as examples of His \u201cFine Brushwork\u201d style, but the Buddha Master painted in many quite different styles including another of my favorites of the Indian Patriarch Bodhidharma done in His \u201cFreehand Brushwork\u201d style shown in FIGURE 73 on page 182<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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FIGURE 70: \u201cInk Lotus\u201d a painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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FIGURE 71: \u201cKuan Yin Bodhisattva\u201d by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Much has already been written about the Buddha Master\u2019s paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, etc., in various art books, so I will not repeat more about that here. The above was just to provide context for the following story I really want to share and to authenticate the value of the Buddha Master\u2019s artwork for the next chapter. I want to tell you about my personal favorite painting that He drew for me in a few minutes on plain typing paper using a black Sharpie. It\u2019s of a pensive panda on a cliff and it hangs in my Buddha Room (FIGURE 72). I mention it to not only tell of my Buddha Master\u2019s talents, which are amazing, but to tell of His ability to empower others. After he finished the Panda sketch and another one of plum blossoms, He threw the magic marker to me and told me to copy them… and I did. Now mine were not perfect reproductions of what He had painted, but they were pretty close and infinitely better than anything I have ever drawn before or since. I know of other students who have become professional artists after receiving His empowerment to do so. I learned much later in Asanga\u2019s Bodhisattvabhumi<\/em> that one of the reasons a Bodhisattva seeks to perfect the Craftsmanship Vidya is to teach the craft to others so as to attract them to the Dharma. It certainly worked on me.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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FIGURE 72: Sharpie sketch of \u201cPanda on Cliff.\u201d by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Footnotes<\/h3>

38<\/sup> Contact https:\/\/www.hhdcb3cam.org\/<\/a> for more information on the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum in Covina, CA and https:\/\/www.iamasf.org\/<\/a> to read about the International Art Museum of America (IAMA) in San Francisco, CA. \u21a9<\/a><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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