Yung-ming Yen-shou: Yen-shou's Poem of Enligthenment

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Yen-shou's Poem of Enligthenment

by Yung-ming Yen-shou
(904 - 975) Timeline

English version by
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

10th Century

Something dropped! It is no other thing;
Right and left, there is nothing earthy:
Rivers and mountains and the great earth,--
In them all revealed is the Body of the Dharmaraja.

-- from Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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Themes

Mountain

Recommended Books

	Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
	The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'ang Dynasty, by John C.H. Wu

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