"What does the Bodhisattva look like?" "If we don't know the Bodhisattva's true appearance, how can we sculpt…
"What does the Bodhisattva look like?"
"If we don't know the Bodhisattva's true appearance, how can we sculpt and outline it?"
Until he took over his father's toolbox, chisels, hammers, flat chisels, carpenter's squares, ink lines...
Some light, some heavy.
He carved stroke after stroke, the worn name on the wooden handle flickering in his peripheral vision...
Sometimes light, sometimes heavy.
In the past, he thought all the Bodhisattvas in the Scripture Cave looked the same.
But now, looking again, what does the Bodhisattva look like?
Tall and short, plump and slender, so, he had already met the Bodhisattva.