The Four Immeasurable States

Seated on individual lotus flowers and depicted in a blue Drutsa script style are the four essential states: Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity. Below these four lotus flowers is written a commentary in an early round tailed Drutsa script from 14th century Tibet, that translate as:

According to the Mahayana by meditation that focuses on measureless beings there are four states of mind that set in motion measureless punya (auspicious or positive effects or states), namely: measureless love, measureless compassion, measureless joy and measureless equanimity.

The provenance of this particular art piece first featured at an international calligraphy exhibition at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow 2012 – 2016. The piece was then exhibited from 2016 at a solo exhibition, Amankora, Thimphu, Bhutan, returning to the U.K. in 2019 and is now in a private collection in Germany.