Ting Yün-p'eng (style name Nan-yu; sobriquet Sheng-hua chü-shih) was a native of Hsiu-ning, Anhwei. He excelled at painting Taoist and Buddhist figures and his pai-miao (plain outline) manner is much like that of Li Kung-lin (1041-1106). Ting Yün-p'eng's paintings of landscapes and other subjects are also exquisite and marvelous, making him a master of the late Ming dynasty. Scattered among a group of mountain peaks in this album leaf is an array of temple buildings. The brushwork is loftily archaic, the inkwork completely plain, and the coloring elegantly light; thus imparting a quietly majestic atmosphere throughout the painting and making the viewer spirtually moved. The inscription on the painting reads, "The True Mystery of the Absolute. Painted by the late comer, Ting Yün-p'eng, on a summer day in the i-ch'ou year [1589]." Ting thus did the work when he was 42-years-old.