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The Poetics of Ch'an:Upaayic Poetry and Its Taosist(7)

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      Generally  speaking, the Way of Buddhism lies on

      enlightenment.  The way of poetry  also  lies on

      enlightenment.   Meng   Hao-yen's   academic

      achievement   is  far  below   that  of  Han  Yu

      (769-824).  Meng's  poetry  is much better  than

      that of Han Yu. The reason for this is that Meng

      has  achieved  enlightenment, but  Han has  not.

      (12)

 

     Accordingly,   Buddhists   were   distinguished

     contributors  to the Chinese poetic tradition, while

     Chinese  poets were greatly  influenced  by Buddhist

     doctrine.

 

     II. POETIC PRECURSORS IN THE TAOIST TRADITION

 

     The Twofold Root of the Chinese Poetic Tradition

 

      Chinese   culture   was  eminently   suited   to

     appreciate  the  Buddhist  use of poetry  due to its

     centuries-long  cultivation of poetic sensibilities.

     Being grounded in the same philosophical perspective

     of reality that suffuses the I Ching, Chinese poetry

     from   its   inception   has   evidenced   a  highly

     sophisticated  use of imagery.  The images  were not

     construed  as mere metaphors, but in fact  represent

     metaphysics  made  concrete: "the Chinese  poem  was

     assumed   to   invoke   a  network   of  preexisting

     correspondences-between  poet  and  world  and among

     clusters of images." (13) Thus, philosophers such as

     Confucius   made  poetry  a  focal  point  of  moral

     education.  (14)

      Two books generally are considered  to represent

     the earliest collections of

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     (12) Yen  Yu,  as  quoted  by  Chang  Chung-yuan  in

       Creativity  and  Taoism:  A  Study  of  Chinese

       Philosophy, Art, and Poetry (New York: Harper &

       Row, 1970), p.186.

     (13) Pauline  Yu, The  Reading  of  Imagery  in  the

       Chinese   Poetic   Tradition   (Princeton,  New

       Jersey:  Princeton  University  Press,  1987) ,

       p.36.

     (14) For a fuller discussion  of this point, see Yu,

       "Imagery in the Classic of Poetry," pp.44-83.

 

 

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