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The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch
Yintuoluo (Chinese, c. 1285-c. 1355)
c. mid-1300s
- Medium
- section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 117.3 x 56.6 cm (46 3/16 x 22 5/16 in.); Image: 32.7 x 44.6 cm (12 7/8 x 17 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
A small boy, accompanied by his mother, is closing his hands in greeting to an old monk who has a young attendant standing behind him. Scholars believe the scene is a meeting between the fourth patriarch of Chan Buddhism, Daoxin 道信, and the little boy, who was the reincarnation of an old monk named Zaisong daozhe 栽松道者 (Pine Planter). They had encountered before, during which Daoxin advised the Pine Planter to endure a reincarnation as he was too old to reach enlightenment. This painting is done by Yintuoluo, an artist renowned for his simple and unadorned style.
