Contacts and Literature between Scholars and Monks in Early Medieval Times
by Cai Yanfeng
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This book explores the form of early scholar-monk interactions and its relationship with literature from three main aspects: the confluence of Xuan-Buddhist thought, the formation of early Buddhist centers, and the literary creation of scholar-monk groups under the Buddhist background. A relatively in-depth analysis is made of the connotation of ideological categories such as Zhi Dun's "Surfaces of Color and Mystery" and Hui Yuan's "Image Noumenon" and their influence on literature; the formation of the characteristics of combining mountains and literature with meaning in the Buddhist centers of Kuaiji and Lushan; the creation of five-character poems by the poet monks in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and their poetic historical significance;
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