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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
8th Century

About Chiao Jan

Timeline (730 - 799)

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English version by
J. P. Seaton

Original Language
Chinese
Inscribed on the Wall of the Hut by the Lake

Themes
  Mountain
  Water
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton

If you want to be a mountain dweller...
no need to trek to India to find a mountain...
I've got a thousand peaks
to pick from, right here in this lake.
Fragrant grasses, white clouds,
to hold me here.
What holds you there,
world-dweller?

 

 

-- from The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton

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