玄藏

释大禅，法号：普生，号紫松轩主，中国诗书画僧，祖籍河北南宫。幼学书画，少有灵异，无师自通。稚子吟诗，弱冠忘禅。师从古法，独辟蹊径，境格高古新奇，有清净风，喜诗文，文采平实，古色古香。诗于书，书于画，画于自然，俱足禅味。参禅九华，步朝五台山，吟诗记行。倡导以艺入道，致力人间佛教。
Shi Dachan , born in Nangong, Hebei, is a Buddhist monk who is a poet, calligrapher and painter. His monastic name is Pusheng, and he also has the sobriquet Zisong Xuanzhu. He is an autodidact and a child prodigy who fell in love with poetry, calligraphy and painting at an early age. He achieved Zen enlightenment on the basis a gradual understanding of aesthetic subtleties. His calligraphy and painting is grounded on but not restricted by classical forms. He has his own distinctive style. His thought encompasses the new and unfamiliar and also the profound and remote, and a tranquil and natural mood pervades all his work. His poetry has a primitive simplicity and naturalness. His poetry draws upon the principles of calligraphy; his calligraphy draws upon the principles of painting, and his painting draws upon the principles of nature; and they all are imbued with the spirit of Zen. When he left home to become a monk, he went to Mount Jiuhua to study Zen. Later he went to Mount Wutai to worship, and he composed and recited poetry as a record of the inner journey he made in the course of that expedition. He is an advocate of using art to communicate deeper truth, and he strives to emulate the sterling example Gautama Buddha set in tirelessly educating the people.