The Monk of the Brush Feiyin Tongrong lived a life defined by the quiet discipline of the monastery and the rhythmic motion of ink on paper. Born in Beijing, China, his early years were marked by loss; he lost his father when he was only six and his mother at eleven. These hardships led him to enter a monastery just two years later. He spent much of his life within the halls of various Chan monasteries, eventually serving as an abbot…