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Su Shi's Temple-Visiting Poems and the Progression of His Chan Enlightenment: with an Additional Discussion of Three Types of Northern Song Literati's Temple-Visiting Poetry

Li Shunchen, Gao Chang #br#   

  1. the School of Literature at Jiangxi Normal University
  • Online:2019-01-25 Published:2019-04-29
  • About author:Li Shunchen, Ph. D., is a professor in the School of Literature at Jiangxi Normal University, with research focused on Chinese Buddhist literature. Gao Chang is a Ph. D. candidate in the School of Literature at Jiangxi Normal University, with her major academic interest in Chinese Buddhist literature.
  • Supported by:
    the National Social Sciences Fund of China (14BZW085) , National Universities and Colleges' Classics Compilation Committee ( [2014] 097) , and the Jiangxi Province Key Project of Social Sciences Development

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Abstract: Su Shi travelled extensively in China, with his particular interest in visiting temples. During his exiled and relegated periods, he composed a number of temple-visiting poems in places such as Fengxiang, Hangzhou, Huangzhou, and Lingnan. These poems manifest themselves in different literary tastes and aesthetic characteristics. They not only represent Su Shi's progress of Chan enlightenment but also embody the three paradigms of Northern Song literati's temple-visiting poetry, namely, realistic delineation of scenery, elaboration of truth and description of heart, and seeing the nature of mind.

Key words: Su Shi, temple-visiting poetry, Chan enlightenment, progression, the Northern Song Dynasty