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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
8th Century
China
(East Asia)

 

Meng Hao-jan

Timeline (689 - 740)

 

Poems by Meng Hao-jan
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Meng Hao-jan (also transliterated as Meng Haoran) was a celebrated poet of the Tang dynasty of China. He was also a close friend of the famous Buddhist poet, Wang Wei.

Like many of the educated classes in China, Meng Hao-jan expected to live a life working as a government official, but he failed the civil service exams. He retired to the hilly country of his native Xiangyang (Hubei province) and dedicated himself, instead, to poetry and Ch'an Buddhist practice.

His poetry explored the beauty of nature, the fleeting nature of life, occasionally spiced with political commentary and satire.

 

Poems by Meng Hao-jan

  A Night on the River
  Climbing Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak
  Master I's Chamber in the Ta-yu Temple

Recommended Books

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan, Translated by David Hinton

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The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo

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Related Links:

  A Lute of Jade - Meng Hao-Jan
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/ALuteofJade/chap13.html

Brief bio and a couple of poems
  The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan
http://www.davidhinton.org/Pages/Meng%20Hao-jan.html

Several sample poems translated by David Hinton
  Meng Haoran
http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/menghr.html

Very brief biographical note.
  Translated Chinese Poetry: Poems by Meng Hao-jan
http://www.shigeku.org/xlib/lingshidao/hanshi/menghaoran.htm

A good collection of poems by Meng Hao-jan
  In a Dark Time... The Eye Begins to See - The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan
http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/07/27/the-mountain-poems-of-meng-hao-jan/

A review of David Hinton's book The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan, with several poems.
 


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