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Responding to numerous requests from the Chinese community, His Holiness Guru Choktrul will hold a calligraphy exhibition at Sunzen Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. The exhibition, titled "Fantasy," warmly invites everyone to attend and offer their insights.In 1987, His Holiness traveled to Taiwan to preside over the cremation ceremony of the high monk Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche and has since been residing in Taiwan for the past 36 years, occasionally traveling to mainland China and Europe to propagate Buddhist teachings and give aid to countless disciples who chanced upon him.His Holiness has a wide range of interests, including calligraphy, painting, sculpture, tea tasting, and collecting unique stones, and has a particular fondness for Chinese calligraphy. In his youth, His Holiness was closely...

Butterfly Wu (1908-1989) was China’s first “movie queen” and the first Chinese actress to achieve international recognition. In an era when Chinese society still held prejudices against the performing arts, Wu devoted herself to the film industry with sheer passion for movies and acting, and soon became the most popular star actress in Shanghai. In 1931, Wu starred in China’s first sound film Sing-Song Girl Red Peony; In 1933, Wu was voted “Movie Queen”, a title that had since been with her all her life; In 1960, Wu won the Best Actress Award at the 7th Film Festival in Asia held in Tokyo, Japan; In 1985, Wu was accorded Special Award by the Taipei Golden Horse Awards committee, in recognition...

Tsai Chih Chung’s Eastern Philosophy MON - FRI:  10:00 AM - 6:00 PMSAT:  11:00 AM - 6:00 PMSUNDAY:  CLOSED   ARTWORKS ON VIEW 展出作品列表    Tsai Chih Chung is a world-renowned cartoonist born in Taiwan, best-known for his Chinese philosophy cartoon series. Conveying abstract ideas in an accessible cartoon format, Tsai mobilizes Eastern Asian cultural heritages and introduces Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian philosophies to the world. Tsai has created over 100 cartoon works, which have been translated and published in dozens of languages, selling over 50 million copies all over the world. In 1999, Tsai Chih Chung was awarded the Prince Claus Awards in recognition of his contribution to introducing Chinese philosophies to an unprecedented wide public. Since the 1990’s, Tsai...

Ink Art in a New Age MON - FRI 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMSAT 11:00 AM - 6:00 PMSUNDAY CLOSED   ARTWORKS ON VIEW 展出作品列表   Ink art, in all its forms, has been characterized by constant metamorphosis and development since the beginning of modern time. Today, its essence represents the cultural, historical and symbolic aesthetic of East Asia. Although the art form is still closely associated with Eastern tradition, artists of the recent modernity who choose ink as their medium or a source of inspiration are increasingly seeking an alliance between ink art and modernity to rescue it from its status as an antiquity, a dying relic.   Still, ink art will always carry with it the cultural and historical weight...

Modern and Contemporary Porcelain from China and Japan NOVEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 17, 2021 SUNZEN ART GALLERY MON - FRI 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM SAT 11 AM - 6:00 PM SUN CLOSED Approximately a hundred centuries ago, as our ancestors threw clay into the flames, pottery was born – it marked that humans entered the Neolithic Age.This art of flame and earth exists widely in human civilizations, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, from Etruria to Rome. Meanwhile, in the Far East, someone has discovered the real secret between the two.In the 3rd century AD, as a craftsman carefully put glazed objects into the kiln, the metal elements in the glaze were fired by a fierce flame, and finally formed a transparent...