On Chan Buddhist Thought in Wang Wei’s Landscape Poetry
摘要
A portion of Wang Wei’s landscape poetry, particularly his renowned descriptive poems from his middle and later years, has long been associated with the thought of Chan (Chan) Buddhism. This association is not a novel proposition. For instance, in the Ming dynasty, Hu Yinglin (1551–1602) and Gao Bing (1350–1423), and later in the Qing dynasty, Wang Shizhen (1634–1711) and Xu Chang (1612–?1671), explicitly noted in their works on poetry criticism that Wang Wei’s compositions in this category embody Chan principles.