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【本刊訊】萬佛聖城萬佛殿的左側，最近已繪製完成西方廣目天王的壁畫，看起來莊嚴雄偉。萬佛殿右側，南方增長天王的壁畫，長約二十英呎。
據繪製者楊建友教授的估計，每幅壁畫需要四十個工作天，大約半年左右，可以完成四大天王壁畫。楊教授很肯定地說：「中國也沒有這麼大的四大天王壁畫。」
楊教授早年並未信佛，但確認定已佛教藝術作終生努力的目標，所以曾以七年的時間，在中國各地臨歷代壁畫，也曾以四年時間，在中國瀋陽護國法輪寺，繪製兩百餘平方尺的大壁畫，並彩塑十七尊菩薩，以及天王塑像。中國八大藝術院校中，楊建友教授是從事佛教藝術實踐，修廟的唯一一位。
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(Announcement) At the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, two of the large wall murals facing south on the west side of the Buddhahall has been completed. The finished murals are of the Western King Broad Eyes and the Southern King Increasing and Growing. Both images stand about twenty feet in height and are extremely stately and majestic.
The artist, Professor Yang Jyan-you estimates that each wall mural would take approximately forty working days to complete. Therefore, within about six months the murals of the Four Heavenly Kings will be complete. "Even in Mainland China there are no murals of the Four Heavenly Kings as large as these," asserted Professor Yang.
In his youth, Professor Yang was not Buddhist, but he had already made Buddhist Art the goal of his life's effort. He spent a period of seven years traveling all over China to perfect his practice in copying famous murals. Professor Yang spent four years painting a large mural of over two hundred square feet for Hu Gwo Fa Lwun (Dharma Wheel for Protecting the Country) Monastery in Shen Yang. He also carved and painted seventeen Bodhisattvas and Heavenly King images for that Monastery. Of all the faculty in the eight major Art Academies on Mainland China, Professor Yang is the only one who works in the area of Buddhist art and practice and the renovation of Monasteries.
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