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

 

Chiao Jan

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Chiao Jan was an aristocrat during the Golden Age of the T'ang era in China. He later became a Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist monk.

 

Poems by Chiao Jan

  Inscribed on the Wall of the Hut by the Lake
  To Be Shown to the Monks at a Certain Temple

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

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