The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan

The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-janThe first full flowering of Chinese poetry occurred in the illustrious Tang Dynasty, and at the beginning of this renaissance stands Meng Hao jan (689 740 C. E.), esteemed elder to a long line of Chinas greatest poets. Deeply influenced by Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Meng was the first to make poetry from the Chan insight that deep understanding lies beyond words. The result was a strikingly distilled language that opened new inner depths, non verbal

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