The Buddhist poet of the poet

There are many Buddhist poets from India, my country and Japan. Usually, outstanding Buddhist figures are mostly outstanding Buddhist poets. For example, Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was an outstanding poet in his own right. Here are some of the more representative poets in the history of Buddhism: Primitive Buddhism: Everything in the classics that is presumed to be spoken by the Buddha himself is recorded in the form of verses (Gatha), such as the Dhammapada (Dhamma-pada). The scriptures are all composed of poems and verses. This special literary form may be due to the fact that there was no written record at that time, but in order to facilitate memory, the poem was adopted. Furthermore, it can be said that the characteristics of the poet are also the characteristics of the Buddhist order. Most of the Buddha's disciples were able to compose poetry and often sang about their religious mood in poetry. Such poems and verses that have been handed down to this day include Thera-gatha^ and Therīgāthā. Among the Buddha's disciples, the most famous poet Vavgīsa (also known as Vavgīsa) often praised the Buddha and his disciples with impromptu poems. Added one Agama Sutra Volume 3 (Part 2, Chapter 557): "I am the first bhikkhu among the sravakas, (abbreviated in the middle) who can compose verses praising the virtues of the Tathagata. I am the so-called bhikkhu Pengqishe." ’ Mahayana Buddhism: The religious reform movement of Mahayana Buddhism has a very strong literary character. Throughout the ages, poets have emerged in large numbers, and there are many classics composed of poems and verses. Among them, Ma Ming (Van Aasvaghosa) is the representative figure. His book "Buddha-carita" describes the biography of the Buddha in poetry. Ma Ming's other famous poem is Saundarananda-kavya, which is a beautiful narrative poem based on the story of Buddha's half-brother Nanda and his wife Sundari. Later, Matrceta, a poet of the Maming school, wrote Four Hundred Praises (Catuhsataka-stotra) and One Hundred and Fifty Praises to the Buddha (Sata-pancasatikastotra). So far, these two Buddhist psalms are The poem was praised by poets all over India. Our country's Dharma-seeking monk Yi Jing sent it to the South China Sea and sent it back to the Inner Dharma Biography Volume 4. It is said in Chapter 227 of the Great Five-Four: "Those who praise in the West all follow the same ancestors' practices. Asuka and Vasubandhu Bodhisattva all look up to them." Therefore, those who have become monks for the first time in the land of five heavens, after they have recited the Five Precepts and the Ten Precepts, must first be taught to recite these two hymns. Regardless of whether they are Mahayana or Hinayana, they must all abide by them. ’ By the fourth century, Aryasura, a poet also belonging to the Ma Ming School, wrote the Jatakamala Treatise on the Jatakamala based on the Buddha’s Jataka story. In 1040, the Kashimila poet Ksemendra wrote a collection of parables (Avadana-kalpalata). Chinese Buddhism; poets Wang Wei and Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty left behind many Buddhist poems. In addition, Hanshan, an extraordinary monk who lived in the cold rock of Guoqing Temple in Tiantai Mountain, Shifeng County, wrote three volumes of Hanshan poems, each of which can be said to be uniquely interesting. By the Song Dynasty, Zen monks emerged in large numbers and produced countless outstanding poems, most of which were collected in Biyanlu. Among them, the poetic style of Xuedou Chongxian (980-1052) was praised as having the style of a Hanlin scholar. Japanese Buddhism: Famous poets of the Heian period, including Hiroyuki Shirakawa, who wrote twenty volumes of Liangchen's secret manuscripts, and Ohara Fujiwara Yoriye (Jinran), the author of Yuishinboshu. During the Kamakura period, Shinran was famous for his peace of mind. By the Muromachi period, Gozan literature was the most famous, especially Yumei Yukimura, Nakazu Zetsumi, and Shunobu Gido as outstanding poets at that time. Excellent works include Min'e Collection, Jiaojian Manuscript, Konghua Collection, etc. During the Edo period, Yoshikan, a monk of the Soto sect, was good at both Japanese poetry and Chinese poetry. Another Nichiren sect monk, Fukakusa Gensei (Nisei), was also a leading poet at the time and authored a collection of Chinese poems (Kusayama Shu).