Eastern Art · Zen Decor

Stillness, carved in stone. Rubbed in ink.

Museum-grade prints of hand-carved Chinese Buddha sculpture — Northern Qi halos, Northern Wei grace, fifteen centuries of stillness for your walls. Gallery prints from $29.

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Fifteen centuries of stillness

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Northern Qi

Northern Qi

The Qingzhou smile — white marble, incised sutras

 Northern Wei

Northern Wei

Caves of Yungang & Longmen — archaic stone

 Heritage Journal

Heritage Journal

Read the timeline — from Gandhara to the caves
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Northern Qi Golden Halo Buddha — Giclée Print

Golden Halo Buddha

Giclée print · 5 sizes
from $29
Northern Wei Zen Garden Buddha — Giclée Print

Zen Garden Buddha

Giclée print · 5 sizes
from $29
Northern Qi Scripture Buddha — Giclée Print

Scripture Buddha

Giclée print · 5 sizes
from $29
The Quiet Room — Giclée Print

The Quiet Room

Giclée print · 5 sizes
from $29
Buddha statue with carved scripture robes
Our Craft

Every fold of the robe carries a verse.

Our originals are carved by stone artisans working in a lineage centuries old — some robes are engraved with complete sutras, character by character. We photograph these sculptures in the workshop, then render each scene into the quiet, light-filled compositions you see here.

No stock imagery. No licenses. Every print traces back to a real statue we can name.

27statues in library
1:1original to print
Gicléearchival inks
Large white jade Buddha statue
Commission

Want the statue itself?

Selected works are available as full stone sculptures — carved to order and shipped by sea freight worldwide. Tell us your space, and our workshop will quote within 48 hours.

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A Living Heritage

Two arts. Sixteen centuries.

For more than 1,500 years, China has carved Buddhas into living rock — and then lifted them, fold by fold and word by word, onto paper with ink. One art made stone speak. The other made it travel.

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  1. 460 · Northern Wei

    The Yungang Grottoes begin

    At a sandstone cliff near Datong, the imperial court commissions the first great Buddha caves of China. Over the next six decades, 51,000 statues will be carved here.

  2. 493–675 · Wei to Tang

    Longmen: faith moves south

    Carvers follow the capital to Luoyang. In 675 the Great Vairocana Buddha is completed at Longmen — and the cliff's famous inscriptions begin their long life as ink rubbings.

  3. 7th century · Tang

    The oldest surviving rubbing

    A copy of Emperor Taizong's "Warm Spring Inscription" survives in the Dunhuang cave library — the earliest ink rubbing known to exist, evidence that the craft was already mature.

  4. 1061 · Song

    Rubbing becomes scholarship

    The antiquarian Ouyang Xiu compiles the Jigu Lu, "Record of Collecting Antiquities." Rubbings of bronze and stone become a formal discipline — and a way to save words from vanished originals.

  5. Today

    World Heritage, living hands

    Yungang, Longmen and Dazu are UNESCO World Heritage sites, and rubbing survives as a protected craft. Our workshop carries on both arts: carving the statue, then lifting it onto paper.