Christie’s Hong Kong sells Yu Chengyao painting donated to Khyentse Foundation. An anonymous donor recently enlisted Christie’s Hong Kong to auction one of his prized paintings and offered all proceeds of the sale to Khyentse Foundation. “The needs of Khyentse Foundation were many and my personal enjoyment of the painting had become an attachment,” he said.
The donor explained that he hoped the sale would help establish a fund to enable Buddhist scholars and monks to take residence at major universities in the west. A global fund raising campaign is currently underway for this project and the concept has received favorable response from the universities that have been approached.
Here is how the donor, who had owned the landscape painting by Yu Chengyao for more than 20 years, described it: “Yu’s approach to traditional Chinese san sui, (mountain/water) landscapes bordered on being almost Cubist without totally losing three dimensionality, quite unprecedented in Chinese scroll paintings. I liked it because the bright green colors were welcoming and soothing.”
“We are very thankful to this donor,” said KF Executive Director, Cangioli Che. “When patrons take the initiative like this it shows creativity, thoughtfulness, and obviously great generosity. I would like to encourage art collectors in the sangha to consider supporting Khyentse Foundation in the same way.”
Dear Cangioli,
Hello – thanks for sending the foundation updates! While my resources are limited, am currently downsizing & working to continue using my talents & $ as available for the rest of this life for Rinpoche’s vision of the future of the dharma. My current plan is to move to Mexico & continue both as an artist & to volunteer with nonprofits. I’m working to donate a small amount of dharma materials if they can be useful, as well as continuing to sell my artwork online (susanrosscreative.com) (while I’m not a nonprofit, I’d like to use my artwork to raise money & interest in dharma through my work.) As soon as I can get moved & resettled I plan to re-establish my small monetary KF donation offerings again ASAP. Meanwhile I’d like to sell some of my own artwork as well as valuable pieces I’ve collected over the years to create some modest support for KF where needed. Please call me at your convenience 303-579-4161 if you would like to consider taking some artworks to sell as I’m trying get this new adventure to Akumal, Mexico underway very soon. I’d also truly appreciate any contacts with Mexican sangha so that I might be of benefit there as well. Thanks!
Yours, Susan Ross
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