How The Zen Buddhism Culture Affects Zen Jewelry Art

Zen is one of the eight Chinese Buddhist sects, it was found by Bodhidharma，and flourished in the Sixth Patriarch. It became the mainstream sect of ChineseBuddhism in the late Tang Dynasty, after which it combined with the Confucianismand Taoism and Buddhist. It has a special significance in the history of philosophy,thoughts and culture. Under the current living conditions of intense competition, thepursuit of a peaceful state of mind and simple lifestyle while the mind can be releasedThe inherent “caring for nature” in Zen of which ways of doing things, the pursuit oflife and human aesthetic, which coincides with the pursuit of people living in the city.Particularly,"Heart is Buddha, self-liberation, not desires and needs, not pretentious,natural" in the Zen life, contains the wisdom of the East, which includes the concernsabout the life and soul, as well as the pursuit of real life, which let people live happyand detached. Thus it is becoming part of the spiritual life, getting more and moreattention. That’s how it charms the Zen lovers. The meaning of the Zen concept to thespiritual life is to go through the emotional “enlightening" spiritual body. For jewelrydesigners, we can not only stay in the form of external, More emphasis is required toreflects a higher level of spiritual connotation. Therefore, this thesis starts with theZen culture which has the realm of the spiritual beyond the nature, based on "Natural,ethereal, quiet, simple" the Zen aesthetics, pursuing beauty and tranquility in modernjewelry design, to enrich appealing performance of the design language, and widenvisions of jewelry design, so that The aesthetics of Zen and Zen philosophy can beblend into jewelry art, aiming to create a unique visual language with Chinese culture,dive into the territory of the soul depth visual perception and innovate to have asimple, quiet, lightweight Zen jewelry works.