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Ch'an, Illusion, and Sudden Enlightenment in the Poetry of Yang Wan-Li *)

Ch'an, Illusion, and Sudden Enlightenment in the Poetry of Yang Wan-Li *) CH'AN, ILLUSION, AND SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE POETRY OF YANG WAN-LI *) BY J. D. SCHMIDT ABBREVIATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY CCC Ch'eng Chai Chi CTCTL Ching Te Ch'uan Teng Lu SPTK Ssu Pu Ts'ung K'an TLSHCS Ts'ang Lang Shih Hua Chiao Shih WMK Wu Men Kuan In studying Yang Wan-li's poetry, I have found Chou Ju-ch'ang's Yang Wan-li Hsüan Chi, Chung Hua Shu Chii, Peking, 1962, of great value for its detailed commentary on about three hundred of Yang's three thousand two hundred poems. Although I do not always agree with its "Marxist" interpretation of some of the poems, the work is a model for what Chinese scholars should do for the great poets of their literature. Also useful is the collection of source materials for Yang Wan-li and Fan Ch'cng-ta published in Yang Wan-li Fan Ch'eng-ta Chüan, Chung Hua Shu Chü, Peking, 1964. Few historians of Chinese literature would deny the influence of Buddhism on Chinese poetry, yet we rarely find the exact nature of that influence clearly defined, probably because of the many difficulties to be encountered by one who attempts to clarify the relationship in a reasonably concrete manner. First of all, it is frequently difficult to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Ch'an, Illusion, and Sudden Enlightenment in the Poetry of Yang Wan-Li *)

T'oung Pao , Volume 60 (4): 230 – Jan 1, 1974

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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0082-5433
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1568-5322
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10.1163/156853274X00072
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CH'AN, ILLUSION, AND SUDDEN ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE POETRY OF YANG WAN-LI *) BY J. D. SCHMIDT ABBREVIATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY CCC Ch'eng Chai Chi CTCTL Ching Te Ch'uan Teng Lu SPTK Ssu Pu Ts'ung K'an TLSHCS Ts'ang Lang Shih Hua Chiao Shih WMK Wu Men Kuan In studying Yang Wan-li's poetry, I have found Chou Ju-ch'ang's Yang Wan-li Hsüan Chi, Chung Hua Shu Chii, Peking, 1962, of great value for its detailed commentary on about three hundred of Yang's three thousand two hundred poems. Although I do not always agree with its "Marxist" interpretation of some of the poems, the work is a model for what Chinese scholars should do for the great poets of their literature. Also useful is the collection of source materials for Yang Wan-li and Fan Ch'cng-ta published in Yang Wan-li Fan Ch'eng-ta Chüan, Chung Hua Shu Chü, Peking, 1964. Few historians of Chinese literature would deny the influence of Buddhism on Chinese poetry, yet we rarely find the exact nature of that influence clearly defined, probably because of the many difficulties to be encountered by one who attempts to clarify the relationship in a reasonably concrete manner. First of all, it is frequently difficult to

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Published: Jan 1, 1974

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