A Study on Pei Yue and His Poems Written to Monks

Pei Yue 裴説 is a poet who flourished in the Late Tang (618–907) and Five Dynasties (907–960). The historical literature contains relatively limited information about his life, poems handed down to this day are also rare. To date, he has not been major focus academic literature. Eight complete two remnants from Yue’s existing were addressed monks, including renowned monk calligrapher Huaisu 懷素 (737–?), outstanding monks poets Guanxiu 貫休 (832–912) Shangyan 尚顏 (fl. 881), as well lesser known Chubin 處賓, Chumo 處默, Zhiqian 知乾, nameless always monastery (bu chuyuan seng 不出院僧), Su Zhan 蘇瞻, was an advanced scholar (jinshi 進士) planned become monk. It can be seen these that often associated with monks: discussed Buddhist concepts artistic skills them, both praised mourned them. Moreover, strongly averse worldly life yearned for peaceful pure land. He understood intricacies of number concepts, such “emptiness” (wu 無) “mind” (xin 心). sometimes compared combined theories poetic creation.