Tsangyang Gyatso's poem "That Life".
"That Life" is a famous work by Tsangyang Gyatso. It describes a poignant love and longing for your lover.
Tsangyang Gyatso (Tibetan: ?; Tshangs-dbyangs-rgya-mtsho1683.03.01-1706.11.15), Monba ethnic group, the sixth Dalai Lama, whose Buddhist name is Lobsang Rinchen Tsangyang Gyatso, A famous poet and political figure in Tibetan history.
Original text:
That night, I listened to Sanskrit singing all night, not for enlightenment, but just to find a trace of your breath.
In that month, I turned all the prayer wheels, not for salvation, but just to touch your fingerprints.
That year, I bowed my head and hugged the dust, not to worship Buddha, but just to stay close to your warmth.
In that life, I traveled across hundreds of thousands of mountains, not to cultivate the next life, but just to meet you on the road
At that moment, I ascended to immortality, not to live forever, just to meet you on the road. To wish you peace and joy.
That day, I closed my eyes in the fragrant mist of the Sutra Hall, and suddenly heard the mantra in your chanting of the Sutra.
That month, I shook all the prayer wheels, not for salvation, but just to touch your fingertips.
That year, I kowtowed and prostrated on the mountain road, not to meet you, but just to be close to your warmth.
In that life, I traveled around mountains, rivers, and pagodas, not to cultivate the next life, but to meet you on the way.
At that moment, I raised my wind horse, not to beg for blessings, but to wait for your arrival.
On that day, the mani pile was built not for the purpose of cultivating virtue, but just to cast stones from the lake of my heart.
In that month, I shook all the prayer wheels, not for salvation, but just to touch your fingertips.
That year, I kowtowed on the mountain road, not to meet you, but just to be close to your warmth.
In this life, I am not going around the mountains for reincarnation, but just to meet you on the way.
Extended information
Beauty of content
Tsangyang Gyatso’s poems express love and hate, suffering and joy, actions and thoughts in his short and legendary life , feelings and realizations, to a certain extent, reflect his desire to pursue a free and better life. The theme is positive and profound, and the main characteristics of its ideological content are as follows:
1. Bold realism. Tsangyang Gyatso was a religious leader, but he dared to write about his actual actions, inner feelings and life ideals, broke through the shackles of religion on human nature, boldly challenged traditional forces, and showed great courage.
2. Sincere emotion. Most of Tsangyang Gyatso's poems describe the love between men and women. In the poems, there is the shyness of meeting for the first time, the joy of two lovers, the regret of missing out, the steadfastness of the eternal alliance, and the resentment of betrayal. It expresses the author's eager desire and sincere pursuit of love life.
3. Profound philosophy. Many of Tsangyang Gyatso's poems summarize rich philosophies of life while narrating. They are popular and profound, inspiring readers.
Beauty of form
1. The beauty of harmonious music. Tsangyang Gyatso's poems use the circumflex rhythm of the language itself and the characteristics of Tibetan "harmonic" folk songs to make the poems have a strong rhythm and present a harmonious musical beauty. They are catchy and sonorous when read.
The main manifestations are as follows: First, the use of the "harmonic" characteristics of folk songs and the cadence of pronunciation to reflect the beauty of rhythm.
Most Cang poems have four sentences each, each sentence has six syllables, and the syntax is neat. There is a "pause" for every two syllables, and each sentence is divided into three "pauses", that is, "four sentences, six tones, three "Pause", plus one or three sentences of "raising style" indicating the unfinished tone and two or four closing sentences of "falling style", the rhythm is clear, ups and downs, short and powerful, forming a beautiful musical effect.
2. The distant artistic conception is beautiful. Tsangyang Gyatso's poems make extensive use of analogies, puns, symbols, parallelism and other techniques to enhance the atmosphere, create a distinct artistic image, create a distant artistic realm, and achieve perfect artistic effects.
Tsangyang Gyatso can be called a master of using images to express emotions, and various kinds of images abound in his poetry.
3. Popular natural beauty. In the era when Tsangyang Gyatso lived, literati were mostly influenced by the "Nian'a" poetry style, advocating elegance and profundity, and emphasizing the accumulation of words. However, he insisted on writing popular language into his poems, making the language of "Love Song" concise. Fresh, plain and simple, natural and smooth, soft and euphemistic.
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