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- Title
How Did Buddhism Matter in Tang Poetry?
- Authors
Owen, Stephen
- Abstract
Buddhism was often a theme in poetry, especially when writing to monks and on Buddhist sites; it was sometimes a deep conviction on the part of individual poets that contributed to the way they represented the world. There was a period, however, from the ninth through early eleventh century, when Chan meditation shaped how poets thought about the very way of writing poetry. The common use of the [Buddhist] "Way" or Chan in parallel with "poetry" in couplets from this period worked through the possible relations: identity, similarity, complementarity, and mutual exclusion. But the presumption was that the composition of poetry was the counterpart of Chan meditation. Such serious reflection on the relation between Chan meditation practice and poetry eventually devolved into Yan Yu's thirteenth-century comparison of Chan sectarian doctrine with the study of poetry.
- Subjects
CHINA; ZEN Buddhism &; literature; TANG poetry; ZEN Buddhism; POETICS; MENG Jiao; JIA Dao; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; HISTORY
- Publication
T'oung Pao, 2017, Vol 103, Issue 4-5, p388
- ISSN
0082-5433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15685322-10345P03