On the Ancient Chinese Buddhist Painting

The ancient Chinese Buddhist painting was different from the so -called 'orthodox' court painting in all ways, which had special meaning in the history of Chinese painting. The Buddhist trend of art thought started from Song dynasty, got prosperous in Yuan and Ming dynasties and lasted in the late Qing dynasty. The Buddhist artists not only painted what they saw, but also painted what they thought about and what they knew, tried best to express the 'idea beyond of painting'. From the view of their spirit they wanted, what the most Buddhist artists expressed was a kind of going and living in seclusion from the surface of ideological form and avoiding from politics.