On The Heavenly Kings Protectors of the Dharma,Preserved in Osaka,as an Early Quanzhen Taoist Mural Sketch
The Heavenly Kings Protectors of the Dharma,painted by Wang Wei and now stored in the collection of the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts,is recorded in the Complete Collection of Song Dynasty Paintings.In the past,academic circles did not pay much attention to it.The painting depicts immortals headed by Zhong and Liu,as well as many male and female Taoist priests.It also contains the doctrine of the unity of the Three Doctrines,which seems to indicate a direct link to Quanzhen Taoism,especially the Longmen sect.The presence of a large number of poor people in the picture is consistent with the early Quanzhen Taoist ideal of sheltering people from the lower classes.Combining aspects of clothing and connoisseurship history to examine the early factors of the painting,it is possible to deduce that The Heavenly Kings Protectors of the Dharma was painted between the end of the Jin dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan dynasty.
Quanzhen Taoist artEarly Quanzhen TaoismConfluence of Three DoctrinesPortraits of ancestors
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