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Documentary · Kino Lorber · 2022Moving From Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude
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A portrait of the Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han, who teaches students to paint from the silence before thought.

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Meet Alok Hsu Kwang-han.

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Alok Hsu Kwang-han

Zen calligraphic painter and teacher who works with brush, ink and rice paper, and who describes his own approach as teaching painting by not teaching painting.

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