This is New York: Wang Lu Ri, Living Simply Within Complexity

THE EPOCH TIMES
By Amelia Pang

Wang Lu Ri, a Buddhist artist who gave up Fine Art to suffer doing caricature on Times Square

NEW YORK---Wang Lu Ri gave up an 8-year graduate degree in art to draw caricatures at Times Square. Wang, 53, arrived in New York 16 years ago. “I left China wanting to become an artist. But what do you become an artist for? People often become artists for selfish reasons, to make a mark in society, to have their work remembered,” he said. “But I don’t want any of these things.” Instead, Wang spends around eight hours a day studying his faded purple book of Buddhist principles. He’s an unconventional monk, if one can even call him that. So he is happy to suffer now in order to have a good future after his human life is over. [link]