A pair of famille rose dishes depicting six luohans in the centre next to a rocky mountain edge, below a dragon peering its head out of swirling clouds.
‘Luohan’ is the Chinese word for a Buddhist monk who has gained the highest level of spiritual attainment, achieved through meditation and practice of the dharma, the Buddha’s teaching on the nature of Reality. Luohans are the protectors of Buddhism who kept its practices alive between the time of Shakyamuni’s death and the advent of Maitreya, the Buddha of the future.
