Born in the 1970s in Hong Kong, Right now Benyou is living in the White Cloud temple on top of Taimu Mountain in Fujian Province, which is surrounded by fog and clouds every day:
Monk, a kind of life style
Benyou Gallery
Monk, a kind of life style
One day, Benyou went for a visit to an almost deserted temple, which is in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi province. After six months of self-cultivation, he became a monk there.
After becoming a monk in that temple, his daily life did not change much. Benyou continued to do the painting as diligently as before. Sometimes he also does the daily chores in the temple with other monks.
Benyou’s works are of traditional Chinese watercolor paintings, with the subject being little monks in the temples. Not good at talking, Benyou enjoys the self-cultivation in solitude very much. He does not like participating in any Buddhist events or any kind of Buddhist exchange activities. What he wants to do is to express the feelings and thought for his simple daily life in the temple and to spread Buddhist philosophy and Zen concept through his paintings. The money from sales of his works will go to the temple’s necessary funds for daily use.
Benyou hoped that by appreciating his paintings, reading his prose and poetry, the younger generation of Buddhists will have a comprehensive understanding of Chinese Buddhism, rather than only staying in the basic level of traditional folk beliefs of it.
Benyou’s work profiles
After graduation
from Tokyo Art Institute, Benyou returned to Hong Kong and lived in the
stone houses near Fenling new territories and Heshi Cemetery and later
in the houses on the Island. He used to do the work of urgent
translation for daily news or illustrations, and wrote novels, essays
and poems for "Sing Pao Daily News," "Hong Kong Daily News," "Ming Pao",
"Sing Dao Daily", magazine for the young people "Yes", the well-known “
Citymagazine", magazine of fashion "Esquire" and Japan "Asahi Newspaper"
overseas edition.
His
previous novels were mainly published by Hong Kong Scmp publishing
Company. During that period of time in Hong Kong, he also participated
in the shooting job of Buddhist textbooks for High School; worked
together with the religious in chief of Hong Kong Buddhist association,
the vice dean of the Hong Kong Buddhist Sangha College, Monk Juezhen,
and published some exquisite essays and calendar pictures.
Till now, Benyou has finished nearly 100 pieces of watercolor paintings of little monks. We are very happy to lend all these paintings for exhibition so as to spread Buddhism and traditional aesthetic concepts of Chinese Buddhist lives. Welcome all the Buddhist associations and art groups to contact us.
After his graduation from a High School, Benyou worked as a part-time art designer for the newspapers and advertising companies. At the age of 20, Benyou went to study painting in Tokyo Art Institute in Japan, and he came back to Hong Kong after graduation, engaging in writing, news translation, painting, and newspaper and magazine illustrations. He illustrated for the column of the Japan Daily News overseas for two years and has published more than ten novels so far.
Born in the 1970s in Hong Kong, Right now Benyou is living in the White Cloud temple on top of Taimu Mountain in Fujian Province, which is surrounded by fog and clouds every day:
Monk, a kind of life style
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